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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell

The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
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

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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