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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

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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Enemy Quite Religion World
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
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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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
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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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
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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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
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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Angry Leave People Philosophy

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