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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

Bertrand Russell

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy 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
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
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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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
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
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
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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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