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“While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this'. ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.”

Knows Should Philosophy Science Certain Knowledge Knowing Ignorance Ought Concepts Affair Practicals Certainty Useless Not Knowing Precise Precision Arithmetic Sceptic

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.”

Trying Mind Ideas Philosophy Knowing Yoga Absolutes Certainty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And this shift from infallibilism to fallibilism has profound consequences not only for toleration, but also for the subordination of faith to reason and theology to philosophy.”

Reason Philosophy Atheism Consequence Profound Positive Atheism Significant Theology Certainty Contribution Criteria Toleration Empiricism Subordination Infallibility

Book:Why Atheism?

Source: Why Atheism?

“until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison and secret bitterness. Men fight about their philosophies and religions, there is no certainty in them; but their contempt for women is flawless and unanimous.”

Men Ideas Philosophy Would Be Fighting Secret Certainty Poison Bitterness Contempt Flawless Philosophy And Religion

Book:Pilgrimage

Source: Pilgrimage

“Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.”

Source: His Master's Voice

“Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.”

Philosophy Possibility All Things Infinite Theology Certainty Infinite Possibilities

Book:Words I Wish I Wrote: A Collection of Writing that Inspired My Ideas

Source: Words I Wish I Wrote: A Collection of Writing that Inspired My Ideas

“Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.”

Philosophy Able Answers Doubt Possibility Raises Tyranny Certainty Customs Our Thoughts Dogmatism

Book:The Problems of Philosophy

Source: The Problems of Philosophy