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" When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. "

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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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" Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. "

" Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. "

" Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. "

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" The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. "

" Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. "

" To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. "

" The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. "

" I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along. "

" A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. "

" Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. "

" It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. "

" Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. "

" Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. "

" The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. "

" What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. "

" Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. "

" Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. "

" Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. "

" Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. "

" I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. "

" The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. "

" A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. "

" 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. "

" To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. "

" Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. "

" Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. "

" Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. "

" Sin is geographical. "

Bertrand Russell

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