Bertrand Russell Quotes

Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.

I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Life is essentially a question of values.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.

I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.

I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.

Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.

On no question can a perfect unanimity be hoped.

I don’t expect anyone to just sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.

… two men may be as sincere, as earnest, as faithful, as uncompromising, and yet hold opinions far asunder as the poles