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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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
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
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Company Happiness Life Love
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
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
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
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

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