1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was true.