Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Tag: Bertrand Russell
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But all who are not lunitics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than to be a slave. Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy – I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.