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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Bertrand Russell

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
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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
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
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
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
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
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
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
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 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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True

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