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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.

Bertrand Russell

So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
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
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
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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