Bertrand Russell

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Bertrand Russell

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

Bertrand Russell

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.

Bertrand Russell

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Bertrand Russell

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

Bertrand Russell

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Bertrand Russell

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.

Bertrand Russell

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

Bertrand Russell

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Bertrand Russell