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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember 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
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
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
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
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
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
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life

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