All knowledge degenerates into probability.

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit…

— David Hume

All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always…

— David Hume

In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and…

— Thomas Merton

The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those…

— Isaac Newton

Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that…

— Javier Perez de Cuellar

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable…

— Vaclav Havel

By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for…

— Albert J. Nock

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller…

— Swami Vivekananda

Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.

— Jerry Brown

Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church.…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. “Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate—” She broke…

— Cassandra Clare

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus…

— Charles Colson

I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just…

— Chinua Achebe