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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.
by Bertrand Russell (Philosopher, British , born in 1872) keywords: age, being, certainty, chief, hesitation, how, live, our, perhaps, philosophy, study, teach, thing, those, without , yet It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.
by Clifford D. Simak (Writer, American , born in 1904) keywords: any, certainty, earth, however, life, only, purpose, seems, speak, sum, total , upon Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
by Adam Smith (Economist, Scottish , born in 1970) topics: Science keywords: adventure, approach, certain, certainty, greater, lose, lottery, nearer, number, tickets, upon , your Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
by Richard Stallman (Scientist , born in 1953) keywords: absolute, best, certainty, ethics, exist, get, gods, way, whether , without When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.
by Terence Stamp (Actor, British , born in 1939) keywords: around, billy, certainty, comes, confidence, edges, get, going, had, kind, rough, something, tested , very Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
by Tom Stoppard (Dramatist, English , born in 1937) keywords: beauty, brought, certainty, desired, joy, may, order, own , sake It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.
by Charles Sturt (Explorer, Australian , born in 1795) keywords: anticipate, cannot, certainty, conducting, emigrate, facility, feared, future, generally, great, labour, new, obtained, operations, recollect, should, south, success, their, them, those, too, wales , without Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
by Thomas Szasz (Psychologist, American , born in 1920) keywords: certainty, claims, convictions, doubt, fears, makes, neurosis, neurotic, persons, problems, psychosis, psychotic, short, solutions, them , things Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
by Dylan Thomas (Poet, Welsh , born in 1914) keywords: always, appear, bad, certainty, conviction, harsh, least, lends, poems, some, sort, then, these, things, think, too, typed , until If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) keywords: certainty, coming, conscious, design, doing, good, house, knew, life, man, run , should It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
by Anthony Trollope (Author, English , born in 1815) keywords: advertise, anything, become, certainty, fortune, make, may, now, only, selling, sufficiently , will From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
by Robert Trout (Journalist, American , born in 1909) keywords: bestial, certainty, complete, consists, developed, equally, existed, human, liberty, locke, man, mind, nation, nature, only, originally, pain, pleasure, sense, state, theory , view I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.
by Henry Wade (Lawyer, American , born in 1914) keywords: any, beyond, certainty, doubt, kennedy, killer, law, moral, president, question, reasonable, say, says, which, without , would A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
by Henry A. Wallace (Vice President, American , born in 1888) keywords: believes, certainty, change, constructive, directed, end, knows, liberal, life, only , toward Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
by Naomi Weissteinkeywords: certainty, describing, found, infallibility, nature, own, psychologists, rarely, secular, sense, set, their, true, women , world Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.
by John Woolman (Clergyman, American , born in 1720) keywords: cannot, certainty, continent, cries, ears, favor, high, his, judgments, many, most, oppressed, our, partial, purity, reached, slaves, such , their
