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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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
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
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
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
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
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
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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