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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

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 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
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
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
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
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
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

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