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

Bertrand Russell

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
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
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
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
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
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try Yourself
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
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

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