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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

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
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
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
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 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
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
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
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
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
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
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
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand

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