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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

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
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
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
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
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
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin

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