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When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this w — Bertrand Russell
The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages — they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
Among the objections to the reality of objects of sense, there is one which is derived from the apparent difference betw — Betrand Russell
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tenta — Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right — only who is left. — Anonymous
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. — Bertrand Russell
If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical or — Bertrand Russell
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists — indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of t — Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals
I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect fo — Frank Sinatra
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. I — Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
The objections to religion are of two sorts -- intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no re — the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.
...what about the stone, Mr Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?""What of it?""Well, how can that be rea — J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows
A strange mystery it is that Nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abyss — Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would rega — Phillip Adams
All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments. — Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Our era has produced many great men--- robber barons, masters of innovation, beast of business---whose staggering wealth — Anna Godbersen, Splendor
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive — Bertrand Russell, The Quotable Bertrand Russell
Earlier fundamental work of Whitehead, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Whorf, etc., as well as my own attempt to use this — Gregory Bateson
In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their undivided attention — Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd