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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.

Bertrand Russell

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
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
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
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Acceptance Be Yourself Deep Fear
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
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
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet 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
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life

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