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

Bertrand Russell

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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
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
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
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
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Decision Deep Philosophy
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
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Deep Fear Hands Religion
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
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
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

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