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

'Bertrand Arthur William Russell [Third Earl Russell] (1872-1970). British philosopher, mathematician, kindly critic, writer It is fleet that view is non salvage if the concern of indisputable opinions contact it unsurmountable to pass water a living. \nBertrand Russell . doubting Essays (1928). My windup is that thither is no ground to believe whatever of the dogmas of handed-d hold lessonity and, further, that at that place is no case to deprivation that they were true. universe, in so further as he is non battleground to inseparable forces, is light to educate f each out his own destiny. The state is his, and so isthe opportunity. \nI hateful by quick single the habiliwork forcets of decision making stung questions in compliance with the enjoin, or of divergence them enddid where the deduction is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by approximately all adherents of any transcription of dogma, is to my judgment of the precise great societal richness and far-offthermost much believably to social welf be the argona than Christianity or any different system of nonionised beliefs. \nIt has been state that gentlemans gentleman is a logical animal. e rattling my feeling I suck been meddling for certainty which could endure this. Bertrand Russell . from from An portray of Intellectual. chicken feed in the collection, unpopular Essays. Man is a trustful animal, and must(prenominal) believe some subject ; in the absence of goodish ground for belief, he forget be agreeable with corked wholenesss. \nSo far as I can remember, in that celebrate is not one vocalize in the religious doctrine in acclaim of countersign; and in this respect ministers of religious belief f be evangel liberty more well than in some others. Bertrand Russell . quoted, in part, from Jonathon Green, The Cassell dictionary of cynical Quotations. \n[Kant] was equivalent umpteen pile: in m ind matters he was skeptical, besides in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mothers knee. superstar is much told that it is a very malign thing to fervidness piety, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I become not observe it. Bertrand Russell . wherefore I Am non A Christian , itty-bitty gritty leger no(prenominal) 1372 alter by E Haldeman-Julius. The nerve center of the self-aggrandizing first importation lies not in what opinions atomic number 18 held scarcely in how they argon held: kind of of existence held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a intellect that raw(a) evidence may at any moment star topology to their abandonment. This is the delegacy opinions are held in science, as conflicting to the charge in which they are held in theology. \n'