Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Bertrand RussellWhat else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful, the unhappiness of many people is very great, and I often wonder how they all endure it. It is usually the central thing around which their lives are built, and I suppose if they did not live most of their lives in the things of the moment, they would not be able to go on.
Bertrand RussellThis is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
Bertrand RussellThere are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
Bertrand Russell