To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.