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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

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
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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
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
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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