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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Bertrand Russell

In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
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
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
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
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Endurance Philosophy Willing World
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Believe Feeling Myself Person Philosophy
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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