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

Bertrand Russell

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
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
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
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
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 must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Company Happiness Life Love
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
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
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 fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
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
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery

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