“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

— Bertrand Russell, "A Liberal Decalogue," 1951

About Bertrand Russell

1872 – 1970

British philosopher and logician, Nobel laureate in Literature (1950).

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”

“The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”

“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

“Worrying and anxiety go together, but worry is not an emotion; it's the thinking part of anxiety.”

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”

“Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.”

“To maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic and protracted inquiry ― these are the essentials of thinking.”

“We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.”