No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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