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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Bertrand Russell

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Believe Death Myself Wrong
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
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 search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Knowledge Philosophy
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Believe Death Deep Myself
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science

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