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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Bertrand Russell

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
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
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
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
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
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
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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