What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human 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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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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