Sin is geographical.
BERTRAND RUSSELLDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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 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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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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