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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
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"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."
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"When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges."
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"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."
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"Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor."
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"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."
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"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."
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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."
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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
Art
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
Being
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
Age
"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
Cultural
"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market."
Love
"Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does that by experiencing himself as being approved of, worthwhile, successful, useful - briefly, as a salable commodity which is he because he is looked upon by others as an entity, not unique but fitting into one of the current patterns."
Psychology
"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
Dream
"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him."
Quality
"The analysis of the psychological motivations behind certain doctrines or ideas can never be a substitute for a rational judgement of the validity of the doctrine and of the values which it implies, although such analysis may lead to a better understanding of the real meaning of a doctrine and thereby influence one's value judgement."
Wisdom
"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."
Faith
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