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Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
" Is There a God? http://www.cfpf.org.uk/articles/religion/br/br_god.html" (1952), encomendado pela revista ilustrada, mas não publicado até a sua aparição em "The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell", Volume 11: Last Philosophical Testament, 1943-68, ed. John G. Slater e Peter Köllner (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 543-48
in "The Science to Save Us from Science," The New York Times Magazine (19 de março de 1950)
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible
Marriage and Morals - Página 58, Bertrand Russell - H. Liveright, 1929, 320 páginas
The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has, and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.
The conquest of happiness - Página 160, Bertrand Russell - H. Liveright, 1930 - 249 páginas
Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism (1919, New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 147)
Capítulo 1: O que torna as pessoas infelizes? - Coleção Saraiva de Bolso, página 19.
A conquista da felicidade
People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. Nobody but a coward would consciously choose to live in a fool's paradise. When a man suspects his wife of infidelity, he is not thought the better of for shutting his eyes to the evidence. And I cannot see why ignoring evidence should be contemptible in one case and admirable in the other.
Last philosophical testament: 1943-68 - Volume 11, Página 546 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=r1jBN5iehKsC&pg=PA546, Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner - Routledge, 1997, ISBN 0415094097, 9780415094092 - 878 páginas
The Problems of Philosophy
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
The conquest of happiness - Página 157, Bertrand Russell - H. Liveright, 1930 - 249 páginas