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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

No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
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
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
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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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
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
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy

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