Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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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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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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.
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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 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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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