To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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