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

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

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

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

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.

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