Bertrand Russell – ‘The time you enjoy wasting i…
‘The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.’
‘The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.’
‘To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.’
‘Most people would rather die than think; in fact they do so.’
‘The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.’
‘The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.’
‘To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization and at present very few people have reached this level.’
‘Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.’
‘To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.’
‘If your experiment needs statistics you ought to have done a better experiment.’
‘Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about nor whether what we are saying is true.’