One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThose who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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