One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important. – Bertrand Russell
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. – Bertrand Russell
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? – Bertrand Russell
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. – Bertrand Russell