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

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm caused, especially to children, by the pernicious doctrine of original sin, a case could be made for saying that the world would have been better off without Christianity.

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