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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.

Bertrand Russell

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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
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.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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

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