A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Bertrand Russell

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell

All movements go too far.
Bertrand Russell

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
Bertrand Russell

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell