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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.

Bertrand Russell

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
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
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
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
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
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
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
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Animal Evidence Life Man Myself Philosophy Search Support
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
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
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
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
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

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