Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI 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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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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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