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“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress—though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. --A Free Man’s Worship and Other Essays, ch. 2 (1976)”
― Memorable Quotations: Bertrand Russell
― Memorable Quotations: Bertrand Russell
“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. --Unpopular Essays, “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish” (1950)”
― Memorable Quotations: Bertrand Russell
― Memorable Quotations: Bertrand Russell
“Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing -- fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.”
― Why I Am Not a Christian
― Why I Am Not a Christian
“We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages. A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. It needs a fearless outlook and a free intelligence. It needs hope for the future, not looking back all the time toward a past that is dead, which we trust will be far surpassed by the future that our intelligence can create.”
― Why I Am Not a Christian
― Why I Am Not a Christian
Haidith Ramirez’s 2025 Year in Books
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