I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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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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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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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to 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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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