1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

I cannot be content with a brief moment of riotous living followed by destitution, and however clever the scientists may be, there are some things that they cannot be expected to achieve

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.