Bertrand Russell Quotes about Heaven

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The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with

The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.

Bertrand Russell

Men, Heaven, Littles

Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.53, Routledge

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of that joy. ... I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.

Bertrand Russell

Love, Heaven, Vision

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Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.

Bertrand Russell

Heaven

When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.

Bertrand Russell

Years, Heaven, Surprise

BBC interview on "Face to Face"; The Listener, Vol. 61 (1959), p. 503, 1959.

[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

Bertrand Russell

Heaven, Looks, Speak

Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2001). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970”, p.87, Psychology Press

All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

Bertrand Russell

Heaven, Logic, Study

If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time.

Bertrand Russell

Imagination, Heaven, Purpose

Bertrand Russell (2015). “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel”, p.144, Lulu Press, Inc