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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.

Bertrand Russell

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
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
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
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself

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