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Advocates
of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of
liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be
restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
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For my
part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and
unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike,
I should say, result from paucity of experience.
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Freedom of
opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Mathematics,
rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty
cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
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Mathematics
takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only
the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
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Men are
born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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Obscenity
is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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One of the
symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that
one's work is terribly important.
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Patriotism
is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Philosophy,
if what has been said is correct, becomes indistinguishable from
logic as that word has now come to be used.
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Science is
what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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The degree
of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts
- the less you know the hotter you get.
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The
fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be
a credit to them.
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There is
much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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The true
spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man,
which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in
mathematics as surely as poetry.
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The whole
problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
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Three
passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life:
the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity
for the suffering of mankind.
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To fear
love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three
parts dead.
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War does
not determine who is right - only who is left.
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What is
new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce
their prejudices.
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Whenever
one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional
failure.
Lord
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)