The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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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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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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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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