Bertrand Russell Quotes About Dreams

• It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Men, Reason

• I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Believe, Prove

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value”, p.186, Routledge

• Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Passion, Men

• I can't tell whether I am living in a dream or a nightmare.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Nightmare, I Can

• America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Law, America

  "Marriage and Morals".

• The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.

  Bertrand Russell

  Beautiful, Dream, Love Is

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.107, Routledge

• I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Believe, Waking Life

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value”, p.186, Routledge

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