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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.

Bertrand Russell

It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
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
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
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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
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
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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