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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Bertrand Russell

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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 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
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
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
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 would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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
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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