#Philosophy
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"Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it."
— Mahatma Gandhi
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"No real belief, however trifling and fragmentary it may seem, is ever truly insignificant; it prepares us to receive more of its like, confirms those which resembled it before, and weakens others; and so gradually it lays a stealthy train in our inmost thoughts, which may someday explode into overt action, and leave its stamp upon our character."
— William Kingdon Clifford
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"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
— William Kingdon Clifford
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
— Vaclav Havel
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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
— Christopher Hitchens
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"When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience has been able to produce in millions of years."
— Bertrand Russell
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"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce a good life. "
— Bertrand Russell
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"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."
— Bertrand Russell
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"It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows."
— Epictetus
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"The attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices."
— Bertrand Russell