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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

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
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
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear
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
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 whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
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
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
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
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk

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