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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

Bertrand Russell

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
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
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 gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing 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
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

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