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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

Bertrand Russell

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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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Himself Man Marriage Woman
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
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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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
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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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy

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