Sin is geographical.
BERTRAND RUSSELLExtreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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