Bertrand Russell

Two people listening to the same sound do not hear exactly the same thing, because one is nearer to the source of the sound than the other, one has better hearing than the other, and so on.

It is not enough that there should be a Hague tribunal, deciding matters according to some already existing system of international law; it is necessary also that there should be a body capable of enacting international law, and this body will have to have the power of transferring territory from one state to another, when it is persuaded that adequate grounds exist for such a transference.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

Worst of all influences are those that thwart or twist a man's fundamental impulse, which is what shows itself as conscience in the moral sphere; such influences are likely to do a man an inward danger from which he will never recover.

they will know and feel that individuality brings differences and uniformity means death.

G. E. Moore and J. M. Keynes:

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

The real table, if it exists, we will call a 'physical object'. Thus we have to consider the relation of sense-data to physical objects. The collection of all physical objects is called 'matter'. Thus our two questions may be re-stated as follows: (1) Is there any such thing as matter? (2) If so, what is its nature?

CHAPTER I. APPEARANCE AND REALITY