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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

Bertrand Russell

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
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
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
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
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
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People 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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person

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