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To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed

To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. – Bertrand Russell

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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. – Bertrand Russell

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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. – Bertrand Russell

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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. – Bertrand Russell

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. – Francis Bacon

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A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. – Ambrose Bierce

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Philosophy is a mental concept of the universe. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. – Gaston Bachelard

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