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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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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
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"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."
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"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."
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"When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges."
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"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."
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"Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor."
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"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information."
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"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
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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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"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."
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"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."
Respect
"Good music is very close to primitive language."
Music
"The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned."
Life
"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
Philosophy
"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."
Man
"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."
Art
"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
Poetry
"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
Man
"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."
Man
"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."
Nature
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