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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Bertrand Russell

In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
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 say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
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
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person

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