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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

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
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
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
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try Yourself
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
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
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

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