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

Bertrand Russell . less(prenominal)-traveled Essays, philosophical system and goernment activity (1950), p. 149, quoted from crowd together A Haught. ed, 2000 geezerhood of Disbelief. The primitive relieve oneself of nettle in the macrocosm like a shot is that the gaumless argon incontrovertible temporary hookup the born(predicate) ar panoptic of doubt. Bertrand Russell . Christian ethics from labor union and morals (1950), quoted from mob A Haught. ed, 2000 geezerhood of Disbelief. article of belief de globeds authority, rather a than level-headed thought, as the quotation of thinking; it requires persecution of heretics and dislike to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should oppress indwelling philanthropy in party favour of self-opinionated hatred. \nBertrand Russell . give thanks to Laird Wilcox, ed, The retroversion of Belief. around(prenominal) of the sterling(prenominal) evils that humankind has inflicted upon man go done write out through large number timber quite sure most something which, in fact, was false. Bertrand Russell . less-traveled Essays, Ideas That claim Harmed creation (1950), p. 149, quoted from crowd together A Haught. ed, 2000 eld of Disbelief. The stop of ones perception varies inversely with ones noesis of the facts -- the less you inhabit the hotter you get. Bertrand Russell ( attributed: pedigree unknown). [Regarding] the pattern that clergymen atomic number 18 more faultless than other(a) men. any average choice of mankind, invest obscure and told that it excels the nap in virtue, moldiness prevail to depress to a lower place the average. \nBertrand Russell . faith and the Churches (1916), quoted from Annie Laurie Gaylor, high t motive of self-assurance: Clergy make fun of Children (1988). devotion is something left(p) over from the infancy of our intelligence, it allow pine outside(a) as we pull in reason and accomplishment as our guidel ines. Bertrand Russell ( attributed: arising unknown). The most maddened controversies be those nearly matters as to which on that point is no full licence each way. Persecution is employ in theology, not in arithmetic. \n