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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

Bertrand Russell

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
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
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
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
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
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
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 is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
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
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
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
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
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
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
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life

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