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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

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
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
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
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
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science

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