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

Bertrand Russell

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
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
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity

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