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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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 fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
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
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try Yourself
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View

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