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Quote by Bertrand Russell
English (Source)
If everything must have a reason, then God must have a reason. If anything can exist without a cause, that something could be the world as well as God, so the argument cannot be valid. Indeed, it is of the same nature as the Hindu view that the world stands on an elephant and the elephant on a tortoise; and when the Hindu is asked: "And what does the tortoise stand for?", he answers: "Let's change the subject." The argument of the First Reason is no more. There is no reason why the world could not have come into existence without a cause; on the other hand, there is no reason why it could not exist from eternity. There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that everything must have a beginning is really a poverty of our imagination.