I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo 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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Those 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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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