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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
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
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
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Comfortable Man Philosophy
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship

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