Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

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.

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.

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

Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.

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

Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Since these cannot be separated from the human organism and the social scene, the moral ways of man cannot be understood without knowledge of the ways of things and institutions.