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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.

Bertrand Russell

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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
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
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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
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
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
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
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

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.

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