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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

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
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
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
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
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism 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
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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
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
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure

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