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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

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
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
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Knowledge Life Love Passion Search Simplicity Strong Suffering
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
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Company Happiness Life Love
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love 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
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
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
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Satisfaction Worth
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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
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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Intelligence Prepare Present
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

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