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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Bertrand Russell

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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
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
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
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

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