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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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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."
"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."
"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."
"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."
"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."
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"The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law."
"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."
"Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey."
"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
"The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action."
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