Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out?
Bertrand RussellI have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.
Bertrand RussellTo be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Bertrand RussellScience, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular facts, and the highest with some general law, governing everything in the universe. The various levels in the hierarchy have a two-fold logical connection, travelling one up, one down; the upward connection proceeds by induction, the downward by deduction.
Bertrand Russell