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

Bertrand Russell

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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself 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 consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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 fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear

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