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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell
People, Religion, Ordinary
Sceptical Essays

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

Bertrand Russell
Belief, Stoic, Skeptic
Bertrand Russell (1971). “Bertrand Russell's best: silhouettes in satire”, Allen & Unwin

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

Bertrand Russell
Time, Lying, Thinking
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.

Bertrand Russell
Believe, Religion, Reason

I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD

Bertrand Russell
Lonely, Hate, World

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Bertrand Russell
Sex, Honesty, Believe

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Fear, Coward

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

Bertrand Russell
Believe, World, Belief
Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.38, Routledge

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

Bertrand Russell
Orthodoxy

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bertrand Russell
Fake People, Math, Talking
"Mathematics and Metaphysicians" (1901)

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

Bertrand Russell
Government, Church, Influence
Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2003). “Man's Peril, 1954-55”, p.216, Psychology Press

A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.

Bertrand Russell
Religious, Adventure, Arriving
"Religion and Science". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. I: Ground of Conflict, 1935.

It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.

Bertrand Russell
Pigs, Dignity, Devotion
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.149, Routledge

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Bertrand Russell
Leadership, Thank You, Thankful
"Bertrand Russell's Greatest Paradox was His Faith" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. November 4, 2011.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.

Bertrand Russell
Liberty, License
"Fact and Fiction".

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

Bertrand Russell
Math, Science, Air
Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times.

Bertrand Russell
Character, Practice, Giving
Bertrand Russell (1997). “Religion and Science”, p.106, Oxford University Press, USA

The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

Bertrand Russell
Honest, Advantage, Method

That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.

Bertrand Russell
Eye, Light, Essence

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

Bertrand Russell
War, Science, Technology

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Bertrand Russell
Elderly, Umpires, Ignorant
Look Magazine, February 23, 1954.

Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

Bertrand Russell
Lying, Philosophy, Asking Questions
Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.18, Bertrand Russell

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Bertrand Russell
Birthday, Educational, Philosophy
Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

Bertrand Russell
Philosophy, Men, Instinct
Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

Bertrand Russell
Men, Desire, Proportion
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.39, Psychology Press

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