"When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Thinking Quotes #Belief Quotes #Certain Quotes

“If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot.”
“The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.”
“The ultimate goal of Bhakti is to get Krishna and we get it by taking shelter of the holy name.”
“Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.”
“Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”
“We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas.”
“In delay there lies no plenty.”
“Character is the glue that bonds solid and meaningful relationships”

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