Bertrand Russell
“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.”
“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.”
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”
“It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.”
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
“The first time I ever read the dictionary I thought it was a poem about everything.”
“Writing well means never having to say, ‘I guess you had to be there.'”
“This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.”
“You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”
“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?”
“I am just going outside and may be some time.”