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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.

Bertrand Russell

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
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
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
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Company Happiness Life Love
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
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
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
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
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
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction

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