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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 dare live.
Bertrand Russell
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Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
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Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
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The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
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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.
Bertrand Russell
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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