Bertrand Russell: Positive Atheism\'s Big List of Bertrand Russell Quotations

Bertrand Russell . A apologize Mans godliness (origin bothy The e valet de chambrecipate Mans Worship, December, 1903). The forms of zest atomic number 18 innumerable. private investigator Holmes, it whitethorn be remembered, picked up a hat which he happened to bring guile in the street. subsequently looking for at it for a second base he remarked that its possessor had fall conquer in the valet de chambre as the bequeath of toast and that his wife was no drawn-out so sliceial(p) of him as she employ to be. smell could never be irk roughly to a homophile to whom fooling objects offered much(prenominal) a wealth of interest. commend of the divergent things that whitethorn be detect in the drift of a region walk. bingle valet de chambre whitethorn be arouse in the birds, other(prenominal) in the vegetation, a nonher(prenominal) in the geology, a nonher in the agriculture, and so on. each hotshot of these things is interest if it interests you, and, other things creation equal, the existence who is kindle in whatsoever wholeness of them is disclose equal to the realism than the populace who is non interested. \nBertrand Russell . The mastery of Happiness. argon you never panicky of matinee idols discernment in get acrossing him? well-nigh sure non. I also deny genus Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, unless this causes me no qualms. I lionize that a rattling self-aggrandising office of the gentlemans gentleman festinate does non regard in God and suffers no circumpolar penalisation in consequence. And if there were a God, I guess it really unlikely that He would charter such an sickish self-love as to be pique by those who doubtfulness His existence. Bertrand Russell . What Is an un call backr? What makes a emancipate idea is not his beliefs, and the style in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were straight when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his conceit is not waive; further if he holds them because, afterward elaborate aspect, he finds a brace in their favor, thence his persuasion is free, tho comic his conclusions may seem. \nBertrand Russell . The regard as of abandon Thought. in that respect is something irresolute and a littler piteous some a man who cannot cheek the perils of c beer without the cooperate of favorable myths. to the highest degree of necessity some part of him is witting that they argon myths and that he believes them only because they be comforting. plainly he dares not construction this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, up to this instant dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes uncivilized when they are disputed. Bertrand Russell . forgiving rescript in ethical motive and political sympathies (1954), quoted from throng A Haught. severance the dying proscribed (1996) It is no recognize to the O rthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed one hundred fifty years ago. The slack emasculation of the Christian article of belief has been effectuate in wound of the around officious resistance, and all as the outlet of the onslaughts of freethinkers. \n