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

Bertrand Russell

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
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
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
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
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
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
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
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear

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