Bertrand Russell Quotes

Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.

It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice