Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
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. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
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. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. - Bertrand Russell. View more images...