Bertrand Russell Quotes

Enjoy these famous inspirational Bertrand Russell quotes. We hope his words inspire you. He was an English Logician and Philosopher; and he lived during the period of 1872 - 1970 was awarded the Order of Merit in 1949 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. His many accomplishments are reflected in his words.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

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

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.
Bertrand Russell

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

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand Russell

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

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell

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

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

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand Russell

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell



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