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
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.
Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific cooperation in place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and punishment. It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
The saviors of the world, society's last hope.
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.