Quote #203
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
More from Bertrand Russell
- Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
- The saviors of the world, society's last hope.
- Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
- The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- 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.
- The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
- I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
- There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.