1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.

The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home...

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.