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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
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
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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
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
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction

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