Quotes - Bertrand Russell

Mathematics may be defined as the subject
in which we never know what we are talking
about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
- Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in
personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be
endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now
and then to hang a question mark on the
things you have long taken for granted.
- Bertrand Russell

The main things which seem to me important on their
own account, and not merely as means to other things,
are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations
of friendship or affection.
- Bertrand Russell

"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."
- Bertrand Russell

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