As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.
Bertrand RussellI read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced anywhere in the world for the next thousand years.
Bertrand RussellIn human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.
Bertrand RussellThe whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages.
Bertrand Russell