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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.

Bertrand Russell

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
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
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
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
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
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
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
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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
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
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
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
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

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