I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for
Bertrand RussellMost political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires
Bertrand RussellThe mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.
Bertrand RussellWhen you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience has been able to produce in millions of years.
Bertrand RussellThe sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.
Bertrand RussellThe question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important.
Bertrand Russell