Bertrand Russell

One must care about a world one will not see.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

Men who are unhappy like men who sleep badly are always proud of the fact.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

What men want is not knowledge but certainty.

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.

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.

To teach how to live with uncertainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.

Science is what you know philosophy is what you don't know.

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach.

There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle.

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.