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Ha erre azt feleljük, hogy egyszerûen a saját kedve szerint alkotta õket, minden különösebb ok nélkül, akkor azt találjuk, hogy van valami, ami nem engedelmeskedik törvényeknek, így a természeti törvények láncolata megszakad. Ha azt mondjuk, amit némely ortodoxabb teológus mond, hogy Istennek minden törvény esetében megvan az oka arra, hogy éppen azt a törvényt hozza, és nem mást -- az ok természetesen az, hogy a lehetõ legjobb világot teremtse (noha ezt a világ láttán nem gondolnánk) -- ha tehát volt ok az Isten által adott törvényekre, akkor Istennek magának is bizonyos törvényeknek kellett alávetnie magát, s ily módon nem jutottunk előbbre azzal, hogy bevezettük Istent, mint közvetítőt.
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A matematika tanulmányozása

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Attributed to Russell in Crainer's The Ultimate Book of Business Quotations (1997), p. 258
Attributed from posthumous publications

1950s, Unpopular Essays (1950)

1920s, What I Believe (1925)
Forrás: Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value

Forrás: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 13: Freedom in Society

Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 1: Current Perplexities, pp. 4–5
1950s, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951)
Kontextus: Consider MacArthur and his Republican supporters. So limited is his intelligence and his imagination that he is never puzzled for one moment. All we have to do is to go back to the days of the Opium War. After we have killed a sufficient number of millions of Chinese, the survivors among them will perceive our moral superiority and hail MacArthur as a saviour. But let us not be one-sided. Stalin, I should say, is equally simple- minded and equally out of date. He, too, believes that if his armies could occupy Britain and reduce us all to the economic level of Soviet peasants and the political level of convicts, we should hail him as a great deliverer and bless the day when we were freed from the shackles of democracy. One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

Forrás: 1950s, Unpopular Essays (1950)

"Fear, the Foundation of Religion"
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
Forrás: Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Kontextus: 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. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts. Science can help us to get over this craven fear in which mankind has lived for so many generations. Science can teach us, and I think our own hears can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead of the sort of place that the churches in all these centuries have made it.

Forrás: The Conquest of Happiness

Forrás: A History of Western Philosophy

Forrás: Marriage and Morals

Forrás: 1910s, The Problems of Philosophy (1912)

"The Emotional Factor"Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.
Often paraphrased as "The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
Kontextus: You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or even mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

"Message from Bertrand Russell to the International Conference of Parlimentarians in Cairo, February 1970," reprinted in The New York Times (23 February 1970)
1960s
Kontextus: The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was "given" by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? A permanent just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East.

Forrás: The Impact of Science on Society

A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42 (1996), p. 544
Attributed from posthumous publications

Forrás: Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

1900s, "The Study of Mathematics" (November 1907)
Kontextus: Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to be assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

Forrás: The Conquest of Happiness