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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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 good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
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
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
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

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