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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Bertrand Russell

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
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
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
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
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
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
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
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

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