Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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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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