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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Bertrand Russell

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
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
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
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
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
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity

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