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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
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We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
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To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do
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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
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To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
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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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This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
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This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
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There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.
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There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.
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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.
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