Sin is geographical.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOne must care about a world one will not see.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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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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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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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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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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