#s

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#christian #christian religion #churches #deliberately #enemy

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#convinced #discovery #every #every time #feel

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#good life #guided #inspired #knowledge #life

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#come #exhaust #grace #hells #infinite

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#could #desired #few #happiness #large

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#conquer #cruelty #fear #main #main source

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#endured #liked #offensive #patient #people

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#erroneous #error #fact #hallucination #judgment

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#disguise #elegant #happiness #hatred #human

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#belief #breakdown #important #nervous #nervous breakdown