"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live." ~Bertrand Russell
"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short." ~Bertrand Russell
"A truly happy life is largely a quiet one, as true joy thrives in tranquility." ~Bertrand Russell
“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. ~Bertrand Russell
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty..." ~Bertrand Russell
"Matter is less material and the mind less spiritual than is generally supposed. The spiritual separation of physics and psychology, mind and matter is metaphysically indefensible." ~Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." ~Bertrand Russell
“Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.” ~Bertrand Russell
"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts." ~Bertrand Russell
"The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge." ~Bertrand Russell
"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." ~Bertrand Russell.
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought." ~Bertrand Russell
"Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?" ~Bertrand Russell
BIO lifted from Rado Gatchalian
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"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness." ~Bertrand Russell
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." ~Bertrand Russell
"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day." ~Bertrand Russell
"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise." ~Bertrand Russell
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." ~Bertrand Russell
"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day." ~Bertrand Russell
"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise." ~Bertrand Russell
“Expect of the young the very best of which they are capable, and you will get it. Expect less, and it is only too likely that you will get no more than you expect.” ~Bertrand Russell
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." ~Bertrand Russell
"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure." ~Bertrand Russell
“I do not wish to suggest that revolutions are never necessary, but I do wish to suggest that they are not short cuts to the millenium. There is no short cut to the good life, whether individual or social. To build up the good life, we must build up intelligence, self-control, and sympathy... Only impatience prompts the belief in the possibility of sudden improvement.” ~Bertrand Russell, 'Salvation, What I Believe’ 1925
"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure." ~Bertrand Russell
“I do not wish to suggest that revolutions are never necessary, but I do wish to suggest that they are not short cuts to the millenium. There is no short cut to the good life, whether individual or social. To build up the good life, we must build up intelligence, self-control, and sympathy... Only impatience prompts the belief in the possibility of sudden improvement.” ~Bertrand Russell, 'Salvation, What I Believe’ 1925
"I have a very simple creed: that life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. One may say it is a simple creed, but I think everything important is very simple indeed." ~Bertrand Russell, Ninetieth birthday celebration speech (18 May 1962)
“I think if people are wisely educated they will find no difficulty in allowing the happiness of others as a necessary condition for their own. Sometimes in a vision I see a world of happy human beings, all vigorous, all intelligent, none of them oppressing, none of them oppressed. A world of human beings aware that their common interests outweigh those in which they compete, striving towards those really splendid possibilities that the human intellect and the human imagination make possible. Such a world as I was speaking of can exist if men choose that it should.” ~Bertrand Russell
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." ~Bertrand Russell
“I think if people are wisely educated they will find no difficulty in allowing the happiness of others as a necessary condition for their own. Sometimes in a vision I see a world of happy human beings, all vigorous, all intelligent, none of them oppressing, none of them oppressed. A world of human beings aware that their common interests outweigh those in which they compete, striving towards those really splendid possibilities that the human intellect and the human imagination make possible. Such a world as I was speaking of can exist if men choose that it should.” ~Bertrand Russell
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." ~Bertrand Russell
"In this world which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way, and if we are to live together and not die together we must learn the kind of charity and kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet." ~Bertrand Russell, Face to Face Interview (1959)
“Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.” ~Bertrand Russell
“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. ~Bertrand Russell
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty..." ~Bertrand Russell
"Matter is less material and the mind less spiritual than is generally supposed. The spiritual separation of physics and psychology, mind and matter is metaphysically indefensible." ~Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." ~Bertrand Russell
"Most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification. People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration." ~Bertrand Russell
“Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.” ~Bertrand Russell
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. ~Bertrand Russell
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." ~Bertrand Russell
"One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important." ~Bertrand Russell
"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic." ~Bertrand Russell
"One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important." ~Bertrand Russell
"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic." ~Bertrand Russell
"So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.” ~Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), Freedom and Society, p. 153
"St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake." ~Bertrand Russell
"St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake." ~Bertrand Russell
“The centre of me is always and eternally in terrible pain ... A searching for something beyond what the world contains, something transfiguring and infinite.” ~Bertrand Russell
"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts." ~Bertrand Russell
"The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge." ~Bertrand Russell
"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." ~Bertrand Russell.
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." ~ Bertrand Russell
"The mere abolition of rent would not remove injustice, since it would not confer a capricious advantage upon the occupiers of the best sites and the most fertile land. It is necessary that there should be rent, but it should be paid to the state or to some body which performs public services; or, if the total rental were more than is required for such purposes, it might be paid into a common fund and divided equally among the population." ~Bertrand Russell
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation." ~Bertrand Russel
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." ~Bertrand Russell
"The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it." ~Bertrand Russell
"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." ~Bertrand Russell
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." ~Bertrand Russell
"There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths." ~Bertrand Russell
"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give." ~Bertrand Russell
"Three passions, simple but overwhelming, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” ~Bertrand Russell
"To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement." ~Bertrand Russell
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." ~Bertrand Russell
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." ~Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929)
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." ~Bertrand Russell
"The mere abolition of rent would not remove injustice, since it would not confer a capricious advantage upon the occupiers of the best sites and the most fertile land. It is necessary that there should be rent, but it should be paid to the state or to some body which performs public services; or, if the total rental were more than is required for such purposes, it might be paid into a common fund and divided equally among the population." ~Bertrand Russell
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation." ~Bertrand Russel
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." ~Bertrand Russell
"The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it." ~Bertrand Russell
"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." ~Bertrand Russell
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." ~Bertrand Russell
"There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths." ~Bertrand Russell
"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give." ~Bertrand Russell
"Three passions, simple but overwhelming, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” ~Bertrand Russell
"To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement." ~Bertrand Russell
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." ~Bertrand Russell
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." ~Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929)
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." ~Bertrand Russell
"To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom." ~Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others: American Essays 1931–1935, Vol. II, Essay, CXL : Censorship by Progressives (11 October 1934), p. 454
"Under the influence of great fear, almost everybody becomes superstitious.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity towards those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Fear generates impulses of cruelty, and therefore promotes such superstitious beliefs as seem to justify cruelty.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. ~Bertrand Russell
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought." ~Bertrand Russell
"Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?" ~Bertrand Russell
BIO lifted from Rado Gatchalian
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) at the grounds of his home "Plas Penrhyn", Penrhyndeudreath, Gwynedd, United Kingdom , c. 1965. Russell had a fondness for Wales and would live there for most of his later years. Plas Penrhyn was near Duedraeth castle, where Russell had stayed many times before, and close to the sea (Penrhyndeudraeth means peninsula with two beaches in Welsh). Russell died at Plas Penrhyn on 2 February 1970. He was cremated at Colwyn Bay and his ashes scattered over the Welsh hills.
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