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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Bertrand Russell

It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
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
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
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
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
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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Comfortable Man Philosophy
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking

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