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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLA sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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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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