I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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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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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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