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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

No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
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
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
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
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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
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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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
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 wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
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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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
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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