“Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind.”

— Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays, 1918, Ch. 4

About Bertrand Russell

1872 – 1970

British philosopher and logician, Nobel laureate in Literature (1950).

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”

“The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”

“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”

“There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.”

“It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.”

“From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.”

“Be attentive therefore, according to the instruction of the Gospel, to learn obedience from the lily and the bird.”