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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
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
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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 good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
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
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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 is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
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
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself

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

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