Bertrand Arthur William Russell:
(Trellech (Monmouthshire, Wales), 18 May 1872 – Penrhyndeudraeth (Gwynedd, Wales), 2 February 1970).
British philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, champion of social innovation, humanist, pacifist and a prominent atheist rationalist. Russell was awarded the Order of Merit in 1949 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
America… where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters…
War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Many of the actions by which men have become rich are far more harmful to the community than the obscure crimes of poor men, yet they go unpunished because they do not interfere with the existing order.
