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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Bertrand Russell

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship
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
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
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
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
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
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
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
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
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
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself

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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