As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.
Bertrand RussellIt is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.
Bertrand RussellThe happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
Bertrand RussellHegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound. It can quite easily be expounded lucidly in words of one syllable, but then its absurdity becomes obvious.
Bertrand Russell