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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
It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
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
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try Yourself
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
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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Deep Fear Hands Religion
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
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
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
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
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction

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