Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.
Bertrand RussellFor over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
Bertrand RussellEthics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand RussellAt all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.
Bertrand RussellThat the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.
Bertrand RussellScience tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.
Bertrand Russell