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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

Bertrand Russell

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
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
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
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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
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
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
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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
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
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
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 is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
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
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing 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 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
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
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
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
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

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