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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Bertrand Russell

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
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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
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
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
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
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
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
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy

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