Sin is geographical.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThis has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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