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
The more you complain the longer God lets you live
It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge
Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.
The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.