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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
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
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Company Happiness Life Love
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
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
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
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
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
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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