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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.

Bertrand Russell

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
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
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin

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