Quote #201

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

More from Bertrand Russell

  1. In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
  2. Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
  3. I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
  4. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
  5. Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
  6. The saviors of the world, society's last hope.
  7. I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is …
  8. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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