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
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.
Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.
Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
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. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.
The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.
Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.
Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.
America ... where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters.