1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

To fear love is to fear life....

It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.

Indemnity for the past and security for the future.

The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for all is to be derived rather from co-operation than from strife. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.