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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

Bertrand Russell

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
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
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
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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
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
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
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
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person

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