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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.

Bertrand Russell

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
Sin is geographical.
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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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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
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
Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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

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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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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