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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Bertrand Russell

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
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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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
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
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
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
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
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy

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