Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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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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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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