Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThis 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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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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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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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