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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.

Bertrand Russell

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
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 use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
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
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live

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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