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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Bertrand Russell

In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
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
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 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
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
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
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
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

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