None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“What really moves people to believe in God is not any intellectual argument at all. Most people believe in God because they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
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