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

Bertrand Russell

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
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
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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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
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
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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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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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
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

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