Bertrand Russell

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no read more

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with read more

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, read more

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.