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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPhilosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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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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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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