"Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal."

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Source : Cassius Jackson Keyser (1922). “Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated Laymen”

Cassius Jackson Keyser

#Ignorance Quotes #Mind Quotes #Unattainable Quotes

“God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.”
“Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.”
“In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.”
“As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of natureâ€™s leaves and blossoms, and lights and shadesâ€”natureâ€™s framework of their pictureâ€”so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry, but which demand the colored air and the bowers of poetry to be the setting of their charms.”

Source : "Motives of Life".
“Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.”
“There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.”
“When you release endorphins, you just feel good.”
“I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films. But there's definitely beauty and art and design in games. I don't think anybody could deny that.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com

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