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

Bertrand Russell

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
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
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
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
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
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
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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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

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

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