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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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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."
"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."
"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."
"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."
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"[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."
"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
"Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it."
"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry."
"The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant facts, controlling our own bias by discussion with people who have the opposite bias, and cultivating a readiness to discard any hypothesis which has proved inadequate."
"We see, surrounding the narrow raft illuminated by the flickering light of human comradeship, the dark ocean on whose rolling waves we toss for a brief hour; all the loneliness of humanity amid hostile forces is concentrated on the individual soul, which must struggle alone, with what of courage it can command, against the whole weight of a universe that cares nothing for its hopes and fears. Victory, in this struggle with the powers of darkness, is the true baptism into the glorious company of heroes, the true initiation into the overmastering beauty of human existence."
"A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation."
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