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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 greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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
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
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
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
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
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Believe Food Goodness Honesty Live Myself People Sex Word
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
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
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
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Knowledge Life Love Passion Search Simplicity Strong Suffering
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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

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