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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Bertrand Russell

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
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
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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
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
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
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
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
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

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