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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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"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."

"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."

"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
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"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love."

"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."

"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."

"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue."

"Since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present."
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