Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the authors)
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Letter "B" » Bertrand Russell Quotes
«Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Fear
| Keywords:
crowd, Great Fear, humanely, influence, nation, neither, sanely, trusted, under
«There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
comfortable, contemptible, feeble, feebler, feeblest, myths, perils, the help, The Perils of
«We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
chief, Chiefs, education, Education i, faced, fact, freedom, freedom of thought, intelligence, Obstacles, paradoxical, The Chief
«Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
competition, criminal, The Victim, victim
«If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument»
«Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Fear
| Keywords:
And One, beginning, conquer, cruelties, cruelty, fear, in the main, main, source, sources, superstition, The Beginning, wisdom
«Anything you're good at contributes to happiness»
«Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ascetic, ascetics, condemn, condemning, drive, drive in, has-been, history, pleasures, power, religions, seek, sense, The Vice, throughout, vice
«Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one»
«The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
Good Life, guided, inspired, knowledge, The Good Life, The Guide
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!