Bertrand Russell Quotes

“One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. As things stand, admiration and respect are given to the man who seems to be rich. This is the chief reason why people wish to be rich. The actual goods...”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

topic:money respect

“the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:money equality

“any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:pleasure value

“Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:pleasure boredom

“whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

topic:philosophy

“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

topic:philosophy living

“Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

topic:philosophy doubt

“At the present time, Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau; Roosevelt and Churchill, of Locke.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

topic:philosophy

“We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“Liberty is the nominal goal of Rousseau's thought, but in fact it is equality that he values, and that he seeks to secure even at the expense of liberty.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

topic:equality liberty

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