Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this causes me no qualms. I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.
Bertrand RussellScience does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.
Bertrand RussellIn our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.
Bertrand RussellHerd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.
Bertrand RussellAwareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand Russell