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

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

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

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.

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

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