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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

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
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
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
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
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
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
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Knowledge Life Love Passion Search Simplicity Strong Suffering
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Comfortable Man Philosophy
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
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

Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin

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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