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

Bertrand Russell

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
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
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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
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
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
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
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 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
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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
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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
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
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking

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