Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Sin is geographical.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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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.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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