Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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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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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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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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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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