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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.

Bertrand Russell

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
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
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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 greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
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
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 secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Deep Intelligence World
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try Yourself
To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
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

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