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

Bertrand Russell

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
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
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
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
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
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
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
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
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
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion

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