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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
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.
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Healthy Philosophy
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
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
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
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
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
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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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Energy Fundamental Power Science
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 think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin

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