Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRSwas a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense". He was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth18 May 1872
Bertrand Russell quotes about
I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe...
From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary...
To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.
Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.
Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.
Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.
Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.