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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.

Bertrand Russell

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
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
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
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
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
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
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy

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