羅素的格言

Bertrand Russell 的格言：

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. "
狗仔隊不會對不為人知的德行有興趣

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and
girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems
rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is
moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very
exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous
one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and
to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

正如我所想的一樣，前人早有洞見！

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that
if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you
will be good.
好生活，我認為，是快樂的生活，不是說你好就會快樂，而是因你快樂，你才會好。

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego
ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering
with the pleasures of others.

我國儀表堂堂的宗教司們，是否為這類人物。

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the
other, that you can boast about it.
讀書有二目的：一是讀了高興，另一是讀了可以吹牛皮。

仔細想，我看書確實是如此！

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
我不會為我的信仰而死，因為它也可能是錯的。

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
活著是競爭，爭着做犯人，以免為受害人。

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more
likely to be honest than a clever man.
世人認為：笨人是老實人的機會比聰明人為高。