We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
BERTRAND RUSSELLConventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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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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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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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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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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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