I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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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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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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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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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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