A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.

Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more color, juice, and humor. But to be lucid, exciting and profound in the main body of one's work is a combination of virtues given to few philosophers. Bertrand Russell has achieved immortality by his philosophical writings.