I am mentally strong.
It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.
Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty.
Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.
In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation.
Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.
Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.
I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.
The burning embers within me burst into flame My body becomes a fire-lit torch. Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.