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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Why I am Not a Christian"
When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his ancestry of beasts of prey, he called it sin and asked God to forgive him.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), A Free Man's Worship 1903
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Conquest of Happiness
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill- treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: ’The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.’ In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), (Education and the Social Order [London: Allen & Unwin, 1932])
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoan to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoan, who gives us this assurance.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Mysticism & Logic, chapter 6
War does not determine who is right-only who is left.
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