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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
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
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear
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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
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
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
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
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
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 in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person

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