No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
BERTRAND RUSSELLConventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Sin is geographical.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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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 hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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 are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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