"Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy." — Bertrand Russell
"Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy."
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Bertrand Russell
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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More Blasphemy Quotes
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and…
— Annie Besant
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
— Annie Besant
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is…
— Mark Twain
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Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a…
— Martin Luther
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I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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