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

Bertrand Russell

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
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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
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
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind 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
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
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
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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
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
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
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
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

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