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

Bertrand Russell

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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

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