Quotes by Bertrand Russell

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Patriotism: the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.