Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe 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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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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