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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Bertrand Russell

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
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
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
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
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
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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

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