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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 has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
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
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
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
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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
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
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
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy

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