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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
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
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
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
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
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
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
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
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
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
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
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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

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