What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Bertrand RussellWhat will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
Bertrand RussellThe man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.
Bertrand RussellEach act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.
Bertrand RussellThere is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.
Bertrand Russell