Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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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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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 search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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