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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Bertrand Russell

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
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
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
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
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
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
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
One must care about a world one will not see.
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Deep Future Oneself See World
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
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
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
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
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View

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