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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
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
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself

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