Bertrand Russell Quotes

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

I do suspect that this world is hell.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Not knowing whom to fall in love with is like not knowing which film to make next. Life is pretty chaotic; it's just an illusion that one has control over one's life.

We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.

If there's no point, then there's no point giving up.

It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.

The world itself makes us sick of the world.

Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING =

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that he is living in a world in which he is a means and whose end is not his business.

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.