Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces..

Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequ….

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system..

The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?".

Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of s….

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them..

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value..

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure..

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low or….

Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it..

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth..

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long..

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness..

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literat….

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion..

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists..

To silence criticism is to silence freedom..

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself..

[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism..

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant..

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step..