I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.
More Quotes from Bertrand Russell:
2. Analytic It is clear that the definition of 'logic' or 'mathematics' must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of 'analytic' propositions.Bertrand Russell
Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone
Bertrand Russell
The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
Bertrand Russell
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
Bertrand Russell
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Bertrand Russell
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
Bertrand Russell
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Children Quotes, Fame Quotes, Truth Quotes, War & Peace QuotesThis is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
Mary Austin
Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.
Sri Chinmoy
I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.
Marian McPartland