Russell, Bertrand

"I feel often a melancholy wonder at the ease with which we all settle down in the dream."

"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is the judgement upon the fact."

"Silence is sometimes an art."

"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them."

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

"The secret to happiness is to stop waiting for life to begin and start appreciating the life you have."

"Three passions have governed my life: longing for love, search for knowledge, and unbearable pity."

"As a rule people are afraid of things."

"If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun, no one would be able to disprove my assertion."

"Many matters which now seem impossible will become possible. But the time required may be longer than we wish."

"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge, free from the dominion of unthinking passion or remorse."

"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it to be true."

"One's life effected by the company one keeps."

"Mathematics is the only subject where the mind is satisfied completely with the truth."

"Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."

"All movements go too far."

"The fact that Stalin has perverted the teachings of Marx does not make those teachings ineffective or untrue."

"Curiosity is the very basis of education."

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wise people so full of doubts."

"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."

"When you are learning to fight, you are learning to die."

"The only thing that achieves peace is the ability to think for yourself."

"We are all prone to the belief that the universe must conform to our comfort."