No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI 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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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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