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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
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
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
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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
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
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
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
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 believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try

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