Bertrand Russell Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

“In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.”

“I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.”

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

“Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.”

“Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.”

“I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.”

“Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.”

“It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.”

“A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.”