Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone.

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.