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Bertrand Russell Quotes

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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture aught below, is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Belief in a divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must himself be at least partially evil  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery... I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck  (Bertrand Russell Quotes) There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead  (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
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