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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Bertrand Russell

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth

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