10/02/19

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. -Bertrand Russell

02/01/19

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

10/29/15

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. -Bertrand Russell

10/15/15

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

06/28/11

An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. -Bertrand Russell

11/03/09

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -Bertrand Russell

07/22/08

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -Bertrand Russell