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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

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
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
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality

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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