I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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