C'est La Vie

“What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance.”

“An illusion can never be destroyed directly, and only by indirect means can it be radically removed… A direct attack only strengthens a person in his illusions, and at the same time embitters him.”

“Rationality is shown not so much in what you believe as in how you believe it. You are rational if you believe it on evidence and as firmly as the evidence warrants and if, further, your belief leads you to act only in ways which are no obstacle to the discovery of error.”

“Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil: there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend only to one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.”

And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.

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