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

Bertrand Russell

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
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
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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
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
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
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking

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