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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Bertrand Russell

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
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 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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
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
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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

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