Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

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.

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

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

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.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.