Quotes by Bertrand Russell

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give."

"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."

"Most people would rather die than think: many do."

"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."

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

"What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out."