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One must care about a world one will not see.

Bertrand Russell

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Knowledge Life Love Passion Search Simplicity Strong Suffering
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
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
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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
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 good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
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
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
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View

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