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
True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.
How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.
All human activity is prompted by desire.
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
War grows out of ordinary human nature.
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.