Quotes About Russell

they'd followed their best instincts and based their lives on the premise that money couldn't buy happiness, learning only gradually the many varieties of unhappiness it might have staved off. Russell

Passive investors who select Russell style-based indices lose a substantial share of the transactions-cost benefits of index-fund investing.

George Russell had responded to yet another request for a reference, sending, by return air-letter, an encomium which would have sat extravagantly on the shoulders of Pico della Mirandola.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

I am writing to Russell at the same time. I think we know, don't we, that the English, the Yankees, have this much in common with the Dutch, that their charity…is very Christian. Now, the rest of us not being very good Christians…That's what I can't put out of my head writing again like this.

Russell's point is that if the set is a member of itself, then by definition it can't be a member of itself. But if it is not a member of itself, then it is a member of itself. So it is both a member of itself and not a member of itself. And that is a contradiction. This glaring mistake, allegedly, left Frege a broken man.

When we first started it was just Russell and myself and a guitar player, Earle Mankey, and unlike virtually any other band in Los Angeles, we began by recording rather than playing live, and so we had no feedback at all on what we were doing and we didn't realise how unusual it was.

Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave.

Walking the New Earth, Lo, a Divine One Greets all men godlike, Calls them his kindred, He, the Divine.

So Wittgenstein went to Trinity College, Cambridge, to study under Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) who was a lecturer in mathematical logic. This was to lead to a passionate intellectual friendship between these two great philosophers in which both were transformed.

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

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.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

Betrand Russell wrote that "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead".

Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'. Maybe that was her problem.

Dresden, which I am told presents no military or industrial targets whatsoever for the RAF.