Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

— Bertrand Russell

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

— Bertrand Russell

Both men and women who have children as a rule regulate their lives largely with reference to them, and children cause perfectly ordinary men and women to act unselfishly in certain ways, of which perhaps life insurance is the most definite and measurable.

— Bertrand Russell

But as men grow more industrialized and regimented, the kind of delight that is common in children becomes impossible to adults because they are always thinking of the next thing and cannot let themselves be absorbed at the moment. This habit of thinking of the ‘next thing’ is more fatal to any kind of aesthetic excellence than any other habit of mind that can be imagined, and if art, in any important sense, is to survive it will not be by the foundation of solemn academies, but by recapturing the capacity for wholehearted joys and sorrows which prudence and foresight have all but destroyed.

— Bertrand Russell

But without going to such extremes' prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things in life. The worshiper of Dionysus reacts against prudence. In intoxication, physical or spiritual, he recovers an intensity of feeling which prudence had destroyed; he finds the world full of delight and beauty, and his imagination is suddenly liberated from the prison of every-day preoccupations

— Bertrand Russell

But without going to such extremes' prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things in life. The worshiper of Dionysus reacts against prudence. In intoxication, physical or spiritual, he recovers an intensity of feeling which prudence had destroyed; he finds the world full of delight and beauty, and his imagination is suddenly liberated from the prison of every-day preoccupations.

— Bertrand Russell

'Change' is scientific 'progress' is ethical change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

— Bertrand Russell

Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

— Bertrand Russell

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

— Bertrand Russell

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

— Bertrand Russell