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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

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
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
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
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
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
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 hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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

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