Bertrand Russell

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would read more

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on read more

The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with read more

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co