Bertrand Russell Quotes

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

The sad truth is, there's more Walter White in me than I'd care to admit, because if I truly was as kind as people think I am, I wouldn't be able to write Walter White.

I introspect on how I am perceived by other people. It's been this way since my childhood.

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.

Everybody is probably guilty of something. I'm sure that if anyone looked into my heart long enough, they could say, you know, 'Bill had some unkind thoughts back in second grade.'

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

Perhaps I'm just over-sensitive.

We see the worst versions of ourselves - things we did or could have done - in the characters who inspire us.

You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.

For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.