Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
BERTRAND RUSSELLRemember your humanity, and forget the rest.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Sin is geographical.
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