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

Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
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
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
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
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person

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