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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.

Bertrand Russell

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
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
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
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
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
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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

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