Bertrand Russell

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

Bertrand Russell

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

Bertrand Russell

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s.

Bertrand Russell

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Bertrand Russell

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

Bertrand Russell

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

Bertrand Russell

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

Bertrand Russell