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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Bertrand Russell

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 is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
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
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
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
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 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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