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

Bertrand Russell

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People 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
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
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
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
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
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
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
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction

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