Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.
Bertrand RussellThe secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand RussellIf everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.
Bertrand RussellThere is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.
Bertrand RussellMankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
Bertrand RussellYou find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
Bertrand Russell