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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.

Bertrand Russell

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Comfortable Man Philosophy
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
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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
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
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
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 must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
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

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