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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.

Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
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
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man 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
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
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
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind 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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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
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
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
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
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
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.

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