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This quote is just one of 100 total Bertrand Russell quotes in our collection. Bertrand Russell is known for saying 'When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his ancestry of beasts of prey, he called it sin and asked God to forgive him.' as well as some of the following quotes.
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.
This quote is just one of 100 total Bertrand Russell quotes in our collection. Bertrand Russell is known for saying 'When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his ancestry of beasts of prey, he called it sin and asked God to forgive him.' as well as some of the following quotes.