1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.

Will machines destroy emotions or will emotions destroy machines?

Even if we could be certain that one of the world’s religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they’re not really interested in.

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did.

Sin is geographical.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.