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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

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
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
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
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
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
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
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
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Knowledge Life Love Passion Search Simplicity Strong Suffering
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind 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
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
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
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
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
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
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
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

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