What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.
Bertrand RussellWhat Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
Bertrand RussellBolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of the world.
Bertrand RussellAs soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.
Bertrand RussellIf the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church
Bertrand RussellAn atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.
Bertrand Russell