One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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 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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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 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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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSELL