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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

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship
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
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
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
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
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
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy

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