There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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