"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."

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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 the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

Loren Eiseley, American Scientist

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"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode."

Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier

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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."

Denis Diderot, French Editor

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"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Scientist

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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."

Stanislaus I, Polish Royalty

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"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."

Richard Dreyfuss, American Actor

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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

Will Durant, American Historian

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"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."

Michael Crichton, American Author

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"The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

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"It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

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"Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias."

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"Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce a good life."

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"And always, in our highly regularised way of life, he is obsessed by thoughts of themorrow. Of all the precepts in the Gospels the one that Christians have most neglected is the commandment to take no thought for the morrow. If a man is prudent, thought for the morrow will lead him to save; if he is imprudent, it will make him apprehensive of being unable to pay his debts. In either case the moment loses its savour. Everything is organised, nothing is spontaneous."

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"So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it."

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"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."

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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

People

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

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"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."

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"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."

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