Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not A Christian And Other Essays On Religion And Related Subjects Quotes
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.
Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.
When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last.
The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.
Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one’s own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.