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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.

Bertrand Russell

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
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
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
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember

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