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

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.

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

Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.

[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.