To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLConventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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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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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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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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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