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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

Bertrand Russell

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
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
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
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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 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
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 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
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy

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