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

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
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
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
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
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
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
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
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
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
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

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