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
Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.
I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly.
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.
In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.
The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.
The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity