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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

Bertrand Russell

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
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
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
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
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
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue

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