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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.

Bertrand Russell

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
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
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Comfortable Man Philosophy
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
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
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
It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
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
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
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
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
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
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
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality

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