The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.
Bertrand RussellThere is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand RussellA generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us
Bertrand RussellThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand RussellWhile I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.
Bertrand Russell