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

Bertrand Russell

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
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
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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
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
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
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
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

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