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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.

Bertrand Russell

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
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
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
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
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
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
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
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad 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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
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
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust

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