"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so."

Philosophy, Certainty, Truth, Error, Confidence

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"God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Philosophy, Takes, Makes, Them

"Reality is what people who lack vision see."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Philosophy, Reality, Vision, Perception, Truth

"Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Philosophy, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Inspirational

"Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Philosophy, Passion, Experience, Life, Repetition

"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Philosophy, Truth, Religion, Science, Art

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Philosophy, Life, Development, Perfection, Nature

"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Philosophy, Right, Wrong, Conduct, Development

"You can't go home again — it’s not necessarily that places change, but that people do."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Philosophy, Change, Home, Identity, Memory

"I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Philosophy, Denial, Truth, Power, Control

"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Philosophy, Evil, Beauty, Realization, Art

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"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."

Law

"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

Life

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

Life

"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."

Wisdom

"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."

Affirmation

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."

Society

"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."

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"God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless."

"Reality is what people who lack vision see."

"Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking."

"Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood."

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."

"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."

"You can't go home again — it’s not necessarily that places change, but that people do."

"I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked."

"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."

Explore more quotes by Oliver Holmes, Jr.

"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."

"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."

"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."

"Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is."

"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."

"The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command."

"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."