1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.

There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

Brief and powerless is man’s life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

It’s coexistence or no existence.

Philosophy bakes no bread.

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell.

It is common in our day, as it has been in many other periods of the world’s history, to suppose that those among us who are wise have seen through all the enthusiasms of earlier times and have become aware that there is nothing left to live for. The men who hold this view are genuinely unhappy, but they are proud of their unhappiness, which they attribute to the nature of the universe and consider to be the only rational attitude for an enlightened man.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.