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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
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 good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
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
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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
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
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk

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