 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
However, many men who do not believe in God nevertheless have a sense of sin. This may be merely a subconscious association with parental disapproval, or it may be fear of the bad opinion of a man’s own herd, when the man is not a rebel against the herd’s standards. Sometimes it is the sinner's own disapproval, quite independently of what others think, that makes him feel wicked. This is not likely to happen except to men who are unusually self-reliant or have exceptional gifts. If Columbus had abandoned the attempt to find the Indies, no one else would have blamed him, but one can imagine that he would have felt degraded in his own eyes.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 7：sin
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