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Death Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.
- [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that…
- Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and…
- And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of…
- Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and…
- Ants and savages put strangers to death.
- If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
- Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to…
- I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in…
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his…
- From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins.…
- And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those…
- I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life…
- There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels?…
- Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
- No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.
- The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion…
- Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden