Bertrand Russell

What hunger is in relation to food zest is in relation to life.

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

To teach how to live with uncertainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision and nothing is so futile.

Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.

'Change' is scientific 'progress' is ethical change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.