“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.”
— Bertrand Russell —
Picture Quote“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 —
Picture Quote“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.”
— Bertrand Russell —
Picture Quote“I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.”
— Bertrand Russell —
Picture Quote“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
— Bertrand Russell —
“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”
— Bertrand Russell —
Picture Quote“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
— Bertrand Russell —
“Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.”
— Bertrand Russell —
“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”
— Bertrand Russell —
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
— Bertrand Russell —