The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“On the Value of Scepticism” (1928)


The essay appeared in The Will to Doubt and in Skeptical Essays, ch. 1 (1928).  Full text.


 
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