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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Bertrand Russell

Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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
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
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
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
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
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
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
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search

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