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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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