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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
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
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible

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