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Letter "B" » Bertrand Russell Quotes
«One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
approaching, breakdown, Breakdowns, nervous, symptoms, terribly
«To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.»
«The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
enjoy, The Time, wasted, wasting, wasting time
«Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.»
«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»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind,
Religion
| Keywords:
Age to Age, come of age, door, dragon, First to, golden, Golden Age, guards, mankind, necessary, on guard, on your guard, possible, religion, slay, The Golden Age, threshold, thresholds
«Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
accepted, eccentric, eccentrics, fear, For every, now, once, opinion
«The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
demand, intellectual, natural, nevertheless, vice
«I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
beliefs, By belief, die, might, wrong
«Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
collective, ferocity, herd, herding, instinct, in regard to, members, produce, regarded, regard as, stimulate, stimulated, stimulates, tended, tended to, tending, tends, tends to, The Herd
«A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
based, Basing, erroneous, error, fact, hallucination, hallucinations, judgment, on base
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