Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?" — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“The famous atheistic philosopher Bertrand Russell once said, “What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.” — Dan DeWitt Copy Share Image
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell” — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell touches on this point in his book The Conquest of Happiness” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell” — Doug Dandridge Copy Share Image
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance. — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
“As the philosopher Bertrand Russell once observed, the rich “preach the dignity of labour while taking care to remain undignified in this… — Richard Newton Copy Share Image
“a statement by Bertrand Russell ... embodies the tone of heroic denunciation that you can muster only if you have drunk deeply… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
To put it simply, we first explain what we are talking about, and then explain why what we are saying is true… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. —Bertrand Russell” — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
“In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their undivided attention to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: “Language serves not only to… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Krugman has been a columnist for the Times for a long enough time, covering a sufficient variety of political events, for us… — Bob Tyrrell Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life - in any form.… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be… — Etienne Klein Copy Share Image
“At the very least, one would hope that by becoming aware of the many ways our brain can trick us, we would… — Robert Carroll Copy Share Image
BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“According to Bertrand Russell, the virtuous stoic was one whose will was in agreement with the natural order. He described the basic… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Shut up about Leibniz for a moment, Rudy, because look here: You—Rudy—and I are on a train, as it were, sitting in… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell, writing during World War I, castigates intellectuals for exactly this tendency: ‘In modern times, philosophers, professors, and intellectuals generally undertake… — Paul McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the preaching of dour labourists, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a bit of laziness. Great philosophers through the ages… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“Marxism, like all other totalitarian movements in our century, must be seen as kind of secular pattern of redemption , designed to… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“I’m heartened by our dissatisfaction, because dissatisfaction is a world away from indifference. The widespread nostalgia, the yearning for a past that… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“The Sexual plight of these children [those adolescents experimenting sexually] is officially not mentioned. The revolutionary attack on hypocrisy by Ibsen, Freud,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“Well, let me just end with one last point to do with your question. One of the issues which has devastated a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“For the psychologist Paul Bloom, this is a huge downside. Empathy, he argues, focuses our attention on single individuals, leading us to… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
“Eliot's own reflections on the primitive mind as a model for nondualistic thinking and on the nature and consequences of different modes… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“A proof represents a logical process which has come to a definitive conclusion in a finite number of stages. However, a logical… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“Which philosophers would Alain suggest for practical living? Alain’s list overlaps nearly 100% with my own: Epicurus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Michel… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“An even more important philosophical contact was with the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who began as my pupil and ended as my… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image