Bertrand Russell Quotes About Hell
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[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
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Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell
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HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.
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The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.
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There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
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