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"When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself."
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"We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties."
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"It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir."
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"There is no greater level and form of belief than believing in yourself."
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"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive."
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"Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world."
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"When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself."
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"Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake."
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"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."
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"The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved."
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"Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences."
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"I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along."
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"When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself."
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"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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"Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself."
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"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."
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"Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change."
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"It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true."
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"When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force."
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"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."
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"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them."
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