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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.

Bertrand Russell

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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
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
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
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
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
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle

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