The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot ab….

I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions..

It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the ….

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man..

There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of al….

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful..

If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the har….

We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any litera….

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved th….

In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical….

Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of bel….

I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never really looked at it before..

To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experi….

If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a sig….

A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a deity. This is far from being the case….

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to exp….

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them..

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish be….

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine..

The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one anothe….

The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is s….