Our use of phrase ‘The Dark ages’ to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe. To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view. From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time […]
Bertrand Russell Quotes
Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I […]
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
There was, until the end of the eighteenth century, a theory that insanity is due to a possession by devils. It was inferred that any pain suffered by the patient is also suffered by the devils, so that the best cure for it is to make the patient suffer so much that the devils will […]
What I do object to about America is the herd thinking. There is no room for individuals in your country – and yet you are dedicated to saving the world for individualism.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should derive sexual pleasure from intercourse.
Thinking you know when in fact you don’t is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone.
