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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
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 use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
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
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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

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