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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

Bertrand Russell

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
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
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
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
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
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
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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

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