Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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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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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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