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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

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
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
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
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
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
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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
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
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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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason 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
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
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
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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