Bertrand Russell

Quotes

• “In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create.”

• “The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.”

• “I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.”

• “Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.”

• “I don't like the spirit of socialism – I think freedom is the basis of everything.”