1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.

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

The method of “postulating” what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

Organized people are just too lazy to look for things.

Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world.

El tiempo que disfrutas perder no es tiempo perdido.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning.

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.