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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
English author, mathematician, & philosopher

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
---Bertrand Russell

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won"t go.
--Bertrand Russell

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
---Bertrand Russell

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
---Bertrand Russell

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
---Bertrand Russell

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
---Bertrand Russell

No one gossips about other people"s secret virtues.
---Bertrand Russell

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
---Bertrand Russell

Passive acceptance of the teacher"s wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
--Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
---Bertrand Russell

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
--Bertrand Russell

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
--Bertrand Russell

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
--Bertrand Russell

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
--Bertrand Russell

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.
--Bertrand Russell

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
--Bertrand Russell

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
--Bertrand Russell

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
--Bertrand Russell

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
--Bertrand Russell

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
--Bertrand Russell

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
--Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
--Bertrand Russell

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
--Bertrand Russell

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
--Bertrand Russell

This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
--Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
--Bertrand Russell

Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.
--Bertrand Russell

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
--Bertrand Russell

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
--Bertrand Russell

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
--Bertrand Russell,

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.
--Bertrand Russell,

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
--Bertrand Russell,

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,

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
--Bertrand Russell,

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
--Bertrand Russell,

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one"s work is terribly important.
--Bertrand Russell,

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
--Bertrand Russell,

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives" mouths.
--Bertrand Russell

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

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
--Bertrand Russell
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.
--Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
--Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
--Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness"

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
--Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the value of Scepticism"

It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate."
--Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Recrudescence of Puritanism"

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
--Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
--Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
--Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

I love these two quots:

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
--Bertrand Russell

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
--Bertrand Russell

1、“对爱情的渴望,对知识的追求,对人类苦难无可遏止的同情心,这三种简单而又强烈的感情支配了我的一生。”就是出自罗素自传的前言的开头。

2、希望是坚韧的拐仗，忍耐是旅行袋。携带它们，人可以走完世界，登上永恒之旅。——罗素。

3、美好的人生是为爱所激励,为知识所引导的人生。

4、作为一个人，对父母要尊敬，对子女要慈爱，对穷亲戚要慷慨，对一切人要有礼貌。

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. 美好的人生是为爱所激励,为知识所引导的人生

生活中不是没有没，而是缺少发现没的眼睛。