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
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us
The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.
All forms of fear produce fatigue.
Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
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.
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.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.