Friday, February 24, 2012

Quotations on Philosophy and Religion

  Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"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."

( Bertrand Russell; from The Quotable Bertrand Russell, New York: Prometheus Books, 1993, p. 138. )


---SPSmith

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