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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

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
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
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
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
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 secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
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
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
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
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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try

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