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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."
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"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."
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"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
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"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."
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"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."
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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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"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."
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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
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"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
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"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."
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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
"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."
Faith
"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
Act
"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
"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man."
Nature
"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."
Want
"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
Cultural
"Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought."
Thought
"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
"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."
Virtue
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