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

Bertrand Russell

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Comfortable Man Philosophy
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember 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
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship

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