The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they… — William James Copy Share Image
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
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