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mysharona1987 · 1 year

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fuckyeahreligionpigeon · 6 months

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#bertrand russell #atheism #christianity #judaism #islam #catholicism #mormonism #baptist #jehovah witness #religion #scientology

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liberalsarecool · 1 month

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When moral sleazebags like Donald Trump feign religion, you know the reason.

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thoughtkick · 8 months

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

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philosophybits · 7 months

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Some things are believed because people feel as if they must be true, and in such cases an immense weight of evidence is necessary to dispel the belief.

Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society

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entheognosis · 5 months

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key-cat · 4 months

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それが何であれ、あなたの得意なことが幸福に導いてくれる。

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

Bertrand Russell バートランド・ラッセル

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thehopefulquotes · 6 months

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 4 months

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Under the influence of great fear, almost everybody becomes superstitious. The sailors who threw Jonah overboard imagined his presence to be the cause of the storm which threatened to wreck their ship. In a similar spirit the Japanese, at the time of the Tokyo earthquake took to massacring Koreans and Liberals. When the Romans won victories in the Punic wars, the Carthaginians became persuaded that their misfortunes were due to a certain laxity which had crept into the worship of Moloch. Moloch liked having children sacrificed to him, and preferred them aristocratic; but the noble families of Carthage had adopted the practice of surreptitiously substituting plebeian children for their own offspring. This, it was thought, had displeased the god, and at the worst moments even the most aristocratic children were duly consumed in the fire. Strange to say, the Romans were victorious in spite of this democratic reform on the part of their enemies.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. So it was in the French Revolution, when dread of foreign armies produced the reign of terror. And it is to be feared that the Nazis, as defeat draws nearer, will increase the intensity of their campaign for exterminating Jews. Fear generates impulses of cruelty, and therefore promotes such superstitious beliefs as seem to justify cruelty. Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. And for this reason poltroons are more prone to cruelty than brave men, and are also more prone to superstition. When I say this, I am thinking of men who are brave in all respects, not only in facing death. Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. Obloquy is, to most men, more painful than death; that is one reason why, in times of collective excitement, so few men venture to dissent from the prevailing opinion. No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage than was required to face death in battle.

—Bertrand Russell, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish, in Unpopular Essays (1943)

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lostfunzones · 6 months

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“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.” �� Bertrand Russell

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okuryazarlar · 3 months

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Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü sahibi İngiliz filozof Bertrand Russell'ı aramızdan ayrılışının 54. yılında saygıyla anıyoruz.

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fuckyeahreligionpigeon · 11 months

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resqectable · 2 months

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

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perfectquote · 7 months

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

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liberalsarecool · 1 year

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"One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it. That is the idea—that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems to me that the people who have held to it have been for the most part extremely wicked.

We find as we look around the world this curious fact, the more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. Every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step towards the diminution of war, every step towards better treatment of the coloured races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organised Churches of the world.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organised in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. You may think that I am going too far when I say that that is still so. I do not think that I am."

— Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)

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philosophybits · 1 month

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Contemplation not only enlarges the objects of our thoughts, but also the objects of our actions and our affections: it makes us citizens of the universe, not only of one walled city at war with the rest. In this citizenship of the universe consists man's true freedom, and his liberation from the thralldom of narrow hopes and fears.

Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

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