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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Bertrand Russell

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
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
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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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
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
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
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 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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