Answers Quote by Sidney Hook

Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more color, juice,…

— Sidney Hook

“Eliot's own reflections on the primitive mind as a model for nondualistic thinking and on the nature and consequences of different modes of consciousness…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just…

— Warren Buffett

When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the…

— G. H. Hardy

“The inclusion of just one contradiction (like 0 = 1) in an axiomatic system allows any statement about the objects in the system to…

— John D. Barrow

“While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don’t have any choice to make. Bertrand Russell”

— Pierre Bourdieu

“A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: “Language serves not only to express thought…

— Dan Simmons

“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do with it.…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“A saving grace of the human condition (if I may phrase it like that) is a sense of humor. Many writers and witnesses, guessing…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The degree of one’s emotion varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts—the less you know, the hotter you get. —BERTRAND RUSSELL”

— Joel Tillinghast

To put it simply, we first explain what we are talking about, and then explain why what we are saying is true (pace Bertrand…

— IU?. I. Manin

The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or Oscar Wilde,…

— Tom Hodgkinson