Bertrand Russell

The desire for safety and the desire for adventure are the two great forces that work in the human soul.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

We have been told that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

The only thing that can redeem mankind is cooperation.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary to kill off nine-tenths of the population.

There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that 'remembered' a wholly unreal past.

I am not a Christian, and I do not believe in God.