War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
– Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, religious skeptic, social reformer, socialist and pacifist. Although he spent the majority of his life in England, he was born in Wales, where he also died. (more info on Wikipedia)
Other Bertrand Russell quotes:
- “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
- “Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires”
- “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
- “Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”
- “Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”
- “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
- “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
- “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
- “We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”
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