A picture is a model of reality.

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.

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.

Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.