Bertrand Russell

(born 1872; died 1970)

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. [Select]

{Category: Science and Religion}

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. [Select]

{Category: Work and Recreation}

Man is a credulous animal and must believe something. In the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. [Select]

{Category: Science and Religion}

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. [Select]

{Category: Work and Recreation}

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. [Select]

{Category: War and Peace}

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. [Select]

{Category: Science and Religion}

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. [Select]

{Category: Science and Religion}

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. [Select]

{Category: Science and Religion}

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

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