What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
Bertrand RussellMathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand RussellSuppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out?
Bertrand RussellPhilosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is cocksure, vague and self-contradictory. The first step towards philosophy consists in becoming aware of these defects, not in order to rest content with a lazy scepticism, but in order to substitute an amended kind of knowledge which shall be tentative, precise and self-consistent.
Bertrand Russell