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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.

Bertrand Russell

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
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy

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