Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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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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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Sin is geographical.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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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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