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

Bertrand Russell

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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
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
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading

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