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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

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
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship
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
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
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
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

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