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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong 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
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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
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 whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
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
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See 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
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
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

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