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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
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
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
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
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage

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