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 the world.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Sin is geographical.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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