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It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!
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The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects.
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An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.
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Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
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RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.
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Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.
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Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its own hot passions and from its ashes will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, woth the light of morning in its eyes.
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Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
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I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
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A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
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We must be sceptical even of our scepticism.
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One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.
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The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.
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I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
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Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.
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All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.
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