If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may… — 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
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this… — 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
All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue. — 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
“Over a billion people believe in Allah without truly knowing what Allah supposedly stands for or what he really demands of them.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. — 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
I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths… — 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 man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe… — 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
“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so,it will be necessary first to slay… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied,… — 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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