To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNever try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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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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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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