The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

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Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

Bertrand Russell in Playboy Interview , 1963
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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

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What human beings really want to attain is not knowledge, but certainty.

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Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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