Top 132 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.