Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.

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.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.

Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.