Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.

Bertrand Russell

Thinking you know when in fact you don’t is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone.

Bertrand Russell

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell

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

Bertrand Russell

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

Bertrand Russell

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

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

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

Bertrand Russell

Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored.

Bertrand Russell