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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

Bertrand Russell

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship
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
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
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
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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
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
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
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
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
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
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

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