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

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.

Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

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