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.

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

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

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

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