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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Bertrand Russell

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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Enemy Quite Religion World
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
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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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
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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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy

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