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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.

Bertrand Russell

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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
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
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
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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
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
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
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
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
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
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
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
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
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
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
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad 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
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life

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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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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