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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

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
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
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
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
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People 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
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
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
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
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
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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Doubt Problem Wisdom World

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