Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
BERTRAND RUSSELLSin is geographical.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Sin is geographical.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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