"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

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"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

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"It's already figured out."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Certainty, Comfort, Truth, Peace

"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Certainty, Doubt, Jealousy, Madness

"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Certainty, Man, Vice

"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."

Henri Poincare, French Mathematician

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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."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

Certainty, Judgment, Order, Scripture

"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

Loren Eiseley, American Scientist

Certainty, Light, Man, May

"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."

Hannah Arendt, German Historian

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"Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory."

Truth

"There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father."

Family

"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."

Man

"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."

Age

"We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates."

Society

"My ideas are my whores."

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"We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves."

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"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."

"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."

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"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."

"We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates."

"My ideas are my whores."

"We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves."

"The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers."

"No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings."

"The first step towards philosophy is incredulity."