"Truth is for the gods; from our human……" — Bertrand Russell
"Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach."
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the…
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That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable…
— Arthur David Ritchie
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You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held…
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The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of…
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What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even…
— Carl Jung
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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after…
— Charles Baudelaire
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— Edward Abbey
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