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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Bertrand Russell

The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
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
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
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
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
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy

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