Occupation: Philosopher Birth: October 29, 1910 Death: June 27, 1989
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….
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….
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful..
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….
Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man..
The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his faith, are indications, if not of….
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 ….
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….
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..
I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions..
If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the har….
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical….