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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Bertrand Russell

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
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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
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
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
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
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
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
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
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
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
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live

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