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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
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 fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure

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