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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

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
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
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
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
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
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
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
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
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
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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

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