Quotes About Russell

Tea! That's all I needed! Good cup of tea! Super-heated infusion of free-radicals and tannin, just the thing for healing the synapses.

Russell suggested he write an essay during the vacation on any philosophical subject. He did so, and when Russell had read the first sentence, he was persuaded that Wittgenstein was a man of genius

In 1913, Wittgenstein decided to live for two years in Norway on his own to meditate and work on logic. Russell tried to dissuade him.

I'm so happy that the first time Russell and I saw 'Annette' with an audience was at the Cannes Film Festival, and even more pleased that it got such a strong positive reaction because that's pretty much the top honor when it comes to screening a film.

Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

I'm just concerned with going about my business and making the records I want to make.

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"

I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.

I love the Seahawks because of Russell [Wilson] and I think that I'm going to probably go for them!

Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.

I suppose I should warn you, Padre. In the absence of male supervision, my mother has become a revolutionary. ~Renzo Leoni

something?" "Relax," Lizzie said. "Granny never mentioned it. But she kept a scrapbook. She clipped all the newspaper articles about the disappearance of … what was his name again?" "Russell Strickland." As Josephine whispered the name, she

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."

T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.

This [Hegel's philosophy] illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but ever possible world, must conform.