Bertrand Russell

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

I am not interested in the universe as a mere collection of facts, but as a system of relations.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty.

We are faced with the paradox that the more we try to avoid suffering, the more we suffer, because our fear of suffering is greater than the suffering itself.

I am a mathematician and a logician. I have no emotions. I am a machine. I am a machine to think.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Orthodoxy is the graveyard of intelligence.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world was created five minutes ago, complete with all our memories and records.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not need happiness.

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that there are no Greek gods.

Many people would sooner die than think. In fact, they do.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

What men want is not knowledge but certainty.

The greatest punishment of the wicked is to be condemned to their own company.

I am not interested in the universe as a whole, but in certain parts of it.

The only way to be happy is to like what you are doing.