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 RUSSELLNeither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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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 who doubt his existence.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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The 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.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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