Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
BERTRAND RUSSELLFear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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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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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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