My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We have reached a stage in evolution which is not the final stage. We must pass through it quickly, for if we… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“At every moment of life the civilised man is hedged about by restrictions of impulse: if he happens to feel cheerful he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The product of causes ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is obvious that in his day-dreams he is a warrior, not a professor; all of the men he admires were military.… — 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
