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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.

Bertrand Russell

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
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
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try Yourself
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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
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
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
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
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship

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