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

Bertrand Russell

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
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
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
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
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Company Happiness Life Love
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try

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