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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell

Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
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
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Death Kill Patriotism Talk
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Yourself
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
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
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
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
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
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
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
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
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Enemy Quite Religion World
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Knowledge Life Love Passion Search Simplicity Strong Suffering
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

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