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

Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
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
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
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
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
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
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way

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