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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man 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
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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 consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
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 greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
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
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life

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