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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.

Bertrand Russell

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
It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
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
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
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
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
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle

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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