Religions, which condemn thepleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of… — 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
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
Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle. — 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
It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In this lies Man's true freedom: in determination to worship only the God created by our own love of the good.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent… — 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
The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, when it is your lot to have to endure something that is (or seems to you) worse than the ordinary lot… — 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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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