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

Bertrand Russell

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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
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
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life

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