Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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