The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and… — 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
“Education, the press, politics, religion—in a word, all the great forces in the world—are at present on the side of irrationality; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching… — 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
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
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
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
Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah. None of us would seriously consider… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know… — 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
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
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
“The battle must be fought exactly as the battle of religious toleration was fought. And as in that case, so in this,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational,… — 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
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
The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“You would think ill of a soldier who refused to fight unless victory was certain. The person who needs religion to bolster… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things… — 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
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
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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