“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
“If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry … (you have) no good reason for thinking as you do.”
– Bertrand Russell
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.”
– 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 friendship or affection.”
– Bertrand Russell
“The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
– Bertrand Russell
“We know too much and feel too little.”
– Bertrand Russell
“The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.”
– Bertrand Russell
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
– Bertrand Russell
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
– Bertrand Russell
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.”
– Bertrand Russell
“Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.”
– Bertrand Russell
“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
“To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.”
– Bertrand Russell
“Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.”
– Bertrand Russell
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
– Bertrand Russell