Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
BERTRAND RUSSELLSin is geographical.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Sin is geographical.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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