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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

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
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
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
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
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
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
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

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