“Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.”

— Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays, 1918

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.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.”

“Beauty without purpose is beauty without virtue.”

“It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.”

“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”

“Far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined!”