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.

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.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

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.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.