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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Bertrand Russell

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
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
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
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
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
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
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try Yourself
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science

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