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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell

The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
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
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
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
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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
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
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Comfortable Man Philosophy
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
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
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World

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