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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

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See 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
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
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
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember 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
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
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking

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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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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