For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

All propositions are of equal value.

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 man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.