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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
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
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
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
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
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
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
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

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