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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

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
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
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
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
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
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
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
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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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Book Enjoyment Reading
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World

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