To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
BERTRAND RUSSELLFear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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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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Sin is geographical.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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