Certitude Quotes
My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).
Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.
A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
The word "concluded" is a trick word. It's designed to attach authority and ontological certitude to whatever follows, when it's just another way of stating what somebody thinks.
La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'
I can say with unwavering certitude that I have never started a pint of Ben 'n Jerry's ice cream that I didn't finish in its entirety within 6 minutes.
I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?
It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.
The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.
Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.
