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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

Bertrand Russell

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
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
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try 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
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Knowledge Life Love Passion Search Simplicity Strong Suffering
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk

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