More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.
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.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
