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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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 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
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage

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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