More from Bertrand Russell

  1. I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evide…
  2. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of highest excellence, is to be found…
  3. I cannot believe - and I say this with all the emphasis of which I am capable - that there can ever be any good excuse for refusing to face…
  4. The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
  5. Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would p…
  6. Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appe…
  7. The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was 'given' by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new sta…
  8. Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the world, but every possib…

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