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Quote of the day 12/27/24

From William Blake: “I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

From William Blake: “What is now proved was once only imagined.”

From Bertrand Russell: “Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.”

From Bertrand Russell: “Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.”

From Bertrand Russell: “It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”

From Bertrand Russell: “The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”

From Bertrand Russell: “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

From Bertrand Russell: “In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”

From Bertrand Russell: “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

From Bertrand Russell: “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”