1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learned as a task but to be assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty.

The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.