Sin is geographical.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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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