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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

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
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
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
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
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
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
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
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
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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
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
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man

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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