To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell View this quote
Almost all education has a political motive. Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. Bertrand Russell
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation. Bertrand Russell
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man. Bertrand Russell
Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye. Bertrand Russell
Ants and savages put strangers to death. Bertrand Russell
Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair. Bertrand Russell
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians. Bertrand Russell
Artists are on the average less happy than men of science. Bertrand Russell
As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me. Bertrand Russell
Logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
May 18th, 1872 - February 2nd, 1970