I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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