Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.