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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Bertrand Russell

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
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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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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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Energy Fundamental Power Science
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
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
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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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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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Angry Leave People Philosophy
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Company Happiness Life Love
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste

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