1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective.

Great Empedocles, that ardent soul, Leapt into Etna, and was roasted whole.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

I don’t care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people’s thoughts. Power over people’s minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice.

The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history – if indeed such a man exists.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.