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
There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.
I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.
The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.
All forms of fear produce fatigue.
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined.
In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.
Ants and savages put strangers to death.
A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher.
The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.
The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.
Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.