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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

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
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
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
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing

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