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More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
