To teach men how to live without certainty, and yet without being
paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing philosophy can
still do.
-- Bertrand Russell
paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing philosophy can
still do.
-- Bertrand Russell
Related:
- What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.
Bertrand... - Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty -
a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture... - The Clinton Administration:
Taxation without hesitation... - If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing.
Bertrand... - If fifty million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
Bertrand... - I have gained this by philosophy:
that I do without being commanded what others do only... - Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the
world are to be found in every asylum:
one man will think he is the governer of the Bank of... - Man can live without air for seconds, without water for days,
without food for weeks, and without ideas for years... - If you can't live without me,
why aren't you dead yet...
From the same category:
- SMILEY
{8-} grinning mischievously
(or just... - Singing makes all the sad people happy because it is the voice of happiness.
Joseph... - An expert is a person who avoids the small errors
as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
Benjamin... - I'm McBorg of Telix,
no other program needs assimulation... - We chose to go to the moon in this decade, and do the other things,
not because they are easy, but because they are hard...
