# What I Believe

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- Book: [What I Believe](https://www.bookquiver.com/bertrand-russell/what-i-believe) ([What I Believe.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bertrand-russell/what-i-believe.md))
- Authors: [Bertrand Russell](https://www.bookquiver.com/bertrand-russell)
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISBN: 978-04-1532-509-7
- Pages: 72
- Published: 2004-01-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell's famed atheism. It is also one of the most notorious. Used as evidence in a 1940 court case in which Russell was declared unfit to teach college-level philosophy, What I Believe was to become one of his most defining works. The ideas contained within were and are controversial, contentious and - to the religious - downright blasphemous. A remarkable work, it remains the best concise introduction to Russell's thought.