Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRSwas a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense". He was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth18 May 1872
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.