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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

Bertrand Russell

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
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
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
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
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
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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Knowledge Life Love Passion Search Simplicity Strong Suffering
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
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

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