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

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
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember 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
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
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
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
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
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
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.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust

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