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

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

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it

The conception of purpose is a natural one to apply to a human artificer. A man who desires a house cannot, except in the Arabian Nights, have it rise before him as a result of his mere wish; time and labor must be expended before his wish can be gra