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

Bertrand Russell

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
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
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
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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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
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
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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