1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described.

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.