Bertrand Russell Quotes

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell

Good, Either, Matters

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell

Time, Death, Thoughts

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Bertrand Russell

Nothing, May, Universe

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
Bertrand Russell

Understand, Name, Acquainted

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand Russell

Long, Madness, Misery

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 18, 1872

Died: February 2, 1970

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