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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

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
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
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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
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
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
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
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself

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