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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Bertrand Russell

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
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
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
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
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
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
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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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