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"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."
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"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."
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"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
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"The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture."
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"Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it."
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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."
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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."
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"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
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"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."
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"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
Beauty
"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom."
Life
"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
Religion
"The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application."
Influence
"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian."
Christian
"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."
Certainty
"Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it."
Nature
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
Trust
"Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity."
Truth
"A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century."
History
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