
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