I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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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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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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To 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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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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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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