Quotes from Betrand Russell

There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.

All the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightnessof human genius, are destined to extinctionin the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievementmust inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins

Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.