I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We are human beings, therefore human beings are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We shall be compelled to renounce the hope of finding philosophical proofs of religious beliefs. ...Hence, once more, the value of philosophy… — 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
Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“This view was prevalent in Japan in the sixth century A.D., when Buddhism first reached that country. The Government, being in doubt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered… — 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
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition… — 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
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given — 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
The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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
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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