What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Bertrand RussellThe best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
Bertrand RussellNeither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.
Bertrand RussellPhilosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect
Bertrand Russell