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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.

Bertrand Russell

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
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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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
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
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste

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