Bertrand Russell Quotes

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro, Patagonia, Kyushu, . . . Dresden--the time span between childhood and adulthood, however fleeting or prolonged, has been associated with the acquisition of virtue as it is differently defined in each society. A child may be good and morally obedient, but only in the process of arriving at womanhood or manhood does a human being become capable of virtue--that is, the qualities of mind and body that realize society's ideals.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That's all.

Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.