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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThose who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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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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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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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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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