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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Bertrand Russell

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
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
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
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
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
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
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
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
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
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity

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