It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.
Bertrand RussellAwareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand RussellThroughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.
Bertrand RussellMoral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
Bertrand RussellI must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.
Bertrand Russell