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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.

Bertrand Russell

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
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
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
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
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
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
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
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

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