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

Bertrand Russell

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
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
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Comfortable Man Philosophy
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
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
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
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
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
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
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
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
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True

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