Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell Quotes
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit: divorced from it, they remain barren.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form that destroys their ideals.
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings, especially in males. I suppose that in the hunting stage it was more easily gratified than it has been since. The chase was exciting, war was exciting, courtship was exciting. A savage would manage to commit adultery with a woman while her husband is asleep […]
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
All human activity is prompted by desire.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: “The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.” In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
All history until the eighteenth century is full of prodigies and wonders which modern historians ignore, not because they are less well attested than facts which the historians accept, but because modern taste among the learned prefers what science regards as probable. Shakespeare relates how on the night before Caesar was killed A common slave […]
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
