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

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To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship... United with his fellow men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love.

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

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Bertrand Russell