top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Certainty quotes
"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."
"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."
"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."
"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."
"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."
"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."
"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
Explore more quotes by Hannah Arendt
"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."
"The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it."
"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been."
"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."
"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."
"Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx."
"Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise."
bottom of page