Bertrand Russell
British philosopher, logician, and social critic.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Trellech
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Alfred North Whitehead
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Ludwig Wittgenstein
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."
"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
"Man, in the long ages since he descended from the trees, has passed arduously and perilously through a vast dusty desert, surrounded by the whitening bones of those who have perished by the way, madde…"
"Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the …"
"I do not think it can be questioned that sympathy is a genuine motive, and that some people at some times are made somewhat uncomfortable by the sufferings of some other people. It is sympathy that ha…"
"3: Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed."
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Timeline
1872
Born
Birth1970
Died
Death
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