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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.

Bertrand Russell

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
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
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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 the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
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.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk

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