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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

Bertrand Russell

The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
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
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
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
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
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

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