Quotations by Russell

All human knowledge is uncertain, inexact, and partial.

• On Relation to certainty, their position: Fallibilism

I cannot see how to refute the arguments for the subjectivity of ethical values, but I find myself incapable of believing that all that is wrong with wanton cruelty is that I don't like it.

• On Status of norms (metaethics), their position: Relativism65%

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

• On Ethics of belief, their position: Evidentialism95%

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

• On Future generations, their position: Responsibility principle93%
• On Belonging, their position: Cosmopolitanism93%

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

• On The highest good, their position: Eudaimonism60%

Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

• On Place of science, their position: Scientism88%