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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

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
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
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
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
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
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
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
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
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
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
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
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
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
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
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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 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
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Comfortable Man Philosophy
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man

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