Bertrand Russell Quotes

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. I've met people who believe in God that are good and that are bad. And I've met people who don't believe in God that are good and that are bad. So, just be good. I'm good. Not cos I think I'll go to heaven but because when I do something bad, I feel bad. And when I do something good, I feel good.

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

If I believe the good, then I have to believe the bad.

Not believing in anything is also a religion .

I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in front of our eyes, which is that thing, this life, this existence, this consciousness, or whatever word you want to use for it, is all we have, and all we'll ever have. I think people have faith because they want and need to believe in something, whatever that something is, because life can be hard and depressing and brutal if you don't.

It is often said in the Bible that God spake unto Moses, but how do you know that God spake unto Moses? Because, you will say, the Bible says so. The Koran says, that God spake unto Mahomet, do you believe that too? No. Why not? Because, you will say, you do not believe it; and so because you do, and because you don't is all the reason you can give for believing or disbelieving except that you will say that Mahomet was an impostor. And how do you know Moses was not an impostor?

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil.

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it; what you tell me about your God is self‐contradictory, and therefore incredible. I do not deny ‘God,’ which is an unknown tongue to me; I do deny your God, who is an impossibility. I am without God.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith

I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible

I was brought up in the kind of Catholic situation up until I was about eleven years old, which was that God is this thing that we're never going to see, we're never going to meet, but you still have to believe in what we say. It's like this blind faith in something that they can't show you.