There Is Nothing So Far

For Each Of Us There Is A Set Limit To Our Intellectual Powers Which We Cannot Pass.

In Philosophy, When We Make Use Of False Principles, We Depart The Farther From The Knowledge Of Truth And Wisdom Exactly In Proportion To The Care With Which We Cultivate Them, And Apply Ourselves To The Deduction Of Diverse Consequences From Them, Thinking That We Are Philosophizing Well, While We Are Only Departing The Farther From The Truth; From Which It Must Be Inferred That They Who Have Learned The Least Of All That Has Been Hitherto Distinguished By The Name Of Philosophy Are The Most Fitted For The Apprehension Of Truth.

It's The Familiar Love-hate Syndrome Of Seduction: "i Don't Really Care What It Is I Say, I Care Only That You Like It."

I Was Convinced That Our Beliefs Are Based Much More On Custom And Example Than On Any Certain Knowledge.

... Moral Certainty Is Certainty Which Is Sufficient To Regulate Our Behaviour, Or Which Measures Up To The Certainty We Have On Matters Relating To The Conduct Of Life Which We Never Normally Doubt, Though We Know That It Is Possible, Absolutely Speaking, That They May Be False.