Bertrand Russell Quotes

I guess law was always interesting to me because you deal with constants. I like to deal with constants, abstracts, constants and reason and ration, rational approaches to things. I don't know, I never really thought why I wanted to study law. But if you ask me whether I would do it again, absolutely.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

Look up here, I'm in heaven.

The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

Analogy is even slipperier than logic.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

What is the will of God? On earth as it is in heaven. If it doesn’t exist there, it’s not supposed to exist here. If it does exist there, it’s supposed to exist here.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.