I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
BERTRAND RUSSELLFew people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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