23-10-2023, 10:06 AM
ÔÇ£Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.ÔÇØ
Bertrand Russell
ÔÇ£I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.ÔÇØ
Bertrand Russell
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)