All human activity is prompted by desire.

— Bertrand Russell

All movements go too far.

— Bertrand Russell

All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.

— Bertrand Russell

All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

— Bertrand Russell

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

— Bertrand Russell

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

— Bertrand Russell

And always, in our highly regularized way of life, he is obsessed by thoughts of the morrow. Of all the precepts in the Gospels the one that Christians have most neglected is the commandment to take no thought for the morrow. If a man is prudent, thought for the morrow will lead him to save; if he is imprudent, it will make him apprehensive of being unable to pay his debts. In either case the moment loses its Seymour. Everything is organized, nothing is spontaneous.

— Bertrand Russell

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

— Bertrand Russell

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

— Bertrand Russell

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice-married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

— Bertrand Russell