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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Bertrand Russell

One must care about a world one will not see.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Future Oneself See World
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Comfortable Man Philosophy
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
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
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
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 whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
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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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
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
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
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
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity

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