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

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

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

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.

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

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

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.