Bertrand Russell1872–1970The quotations of
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician
1872–1970
105 quotes, most often on Anti-Religion, Philosophy and Thinking. Part of the Philosophers collection.
- Unpopular Essays (1950)
- Sceptical Essays (1928), Introduction: “On the Value of Scepticism”
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
The Scientific Outlook (1931)- Religion and Science (1935)
- The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967-1969)
- On History (1904)
- Interview, Face to Face, BBC (1959)
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
What I Believe (1925)Often and often, a marriage hardly differs from prostitution except by being harder to escape from.
Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch VIII: The World As It Could Be Made, p. 129-130Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955)In so far as religion makes its appeal to fear, it is lowering to human dignity.
Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 107- The Prospects of Industrial Civilization (1923)
- Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
It is only when we think abstractly that we have such a high opinion of man.
Essay Do We Survive Death? (1936)A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
On the Nature of Acquaintance: Neutral Monism (1914)




