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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.

Bertrand Russell

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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 most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
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
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
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
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing

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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