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Certainties Quotes (page 9)

it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a school teacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by. Michael Ondaatje
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made. Ambrose Bierce
I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. Gilbert K. Chesterton
We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state. Francis Schaeffer
Robert James Waller quote: "In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only..."
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. Robert James Waller
Terry Prachett quote: "They weren't looking at him as if he was their only hope. They..."
They weren't looking at him as if he was their only hope. They were looking at him as if he was their Certainty. Terry Prachett
...as the witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. Julian Barnes
Finnick!" Something between a shriek and a cry of joy. A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman--dark tangled hair, sea green eyes--runs toward us in nothing but a sheet. "Finnick!" And suddenly, it's as if there's no one in the world but these two, crashing through space to reach each other. They collide, enfold, lose their balance, and slam against a wall, where they stay. Clinging into one being. Indivisible. A pang of jealousy hits me. Not for either Finnick or Annie but for... Suzanne Collins
If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world. Charles Spurgeon
He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her. Nicholas Sparks
.... it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it. Rainer Maria Rilke
Tell me something. Why did I have to know the truth about Margot and know it with absolute certainty? Or rather why, knowing the truth, did I have to know more, prove more, see? Does one need to know more, ever more and more, in order that one put off acting on it or maybe even not act at all? Walker Percy
Michel Foucault quote: "it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying..."
it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime Michel Foucault
We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul. Leonardo da Vinci
Alain de Botton quote: "Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as..."
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. Alain de Botton

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