This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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