Author: Bertrand Russell

Cited by

• David Markson (1)
  • IN: Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When I was still doubtful as to his ability, I asked G.E. Moore for his opinion. Moore replied, "I think very well of him indeed." When I enquired the reason for his opinion, he aid that it was because Wittgenstein was the only man who looked puzzled at his lectures.
    FROM: Last philosophical testament: 1943-68, (1968), Book, UK
• John Lanchester (1)
  • IN: The Debt to Pleasure (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: My German engineer was very argumentative and tiresome. He wouldn't admit that it was certain that there was not a rhinoceros in the room.
    FROM: letter to Ottoline Morrell, (None), Letter, UK
• Colin Wilson (1)
  • IN: The Mind Parasites (1967) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things...
    FROM: letter to Constance Malleson, quoted in My Philosophical Development, (1918), Letter, UK
• Catherine Doyle (1)
  • IN: Vendetta (2015) Contemporary, Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
    FROM: The Conquest of Happiness, (1930), Book, UK
• Sue Townsend (1)
  • IN: The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1984) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The aristocratic rebel, since he has enough to eat, must have other causes of discontent.
    FROM: The History of Western Philosophy, (1945), NULL, UK
• Jenny T. Colgan (1)
  • IN: Resistance is Futile (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe.
    FROM: Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell, (1912), Letter, UK
• Brad Listi (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence... and it can be fostered by education.
    FROM: What Desires are Politically Important?, (1950), Lecture, UK
• Jim Crace (1)
  • IN: All that Follows (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
    FROM: The Triumph of Stupidity, (1933), Essay, UK
• Emma Clayton (1)
  • IN: The Whisper (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Yasmine Galenorn (1)
  • IN: Crimson Veil (2014) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: War does not determine who is right— only who is left.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Adam Pelzman (1)
  • IN: Troika (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
    FROM: The Conquest of Happiness, (1930), Book, UK