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

Bertrand Russell

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
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
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 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
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
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
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
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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