Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.

Bertrand Russell's Popular Quotes

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

- Bertrand Russell

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who contr…

- Bertrand Russell

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

- Bertrand Russell

At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to unders…

- Bertrand Russell

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

- Bertrand Russell

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

- Bertrand Russell

To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

- Bertrand Russell

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

- Bertrand Russell

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

- Bertrand Russell