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

Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
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
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try Yourself
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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People 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
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True

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