Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
Bertrand RussellI mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.
Bertrand RussellFor over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
Bertrand RussellWork is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell