Quotes About Certainty

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over .

Pablo var fyrtinn, stöðugt andsnúinn honum og vildi alltaf hafa rétt fyrir sér, en það voru þrjár óhrekjanlegar sannanir fyrir veikri skapgerð.

Los idiotas siempre están seguros de todo, salvo de lo idiotas que son.

We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foreknowledge of death. That is all we know.

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.

. . . But I know a man who can.

Faith can move mountains. Doubt can create them.

If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing... you have a college degree.

Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it's that you can kill anyone.

They that put their trust in him shall understand the truth.

Then saith he to Thomas… be not faithless, but believing.

Of a truth thou art the Son of God.

Better dead sure than sure dead.

Don't think you're on the right road just because it

I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent.

Have I not written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

Now, faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1, NIV)

We walk by faith, not by sight.

Res iudicata pro veritate habetur [A matter that has been legally decided is considered true].

Ipse dixit [He himself said it].

I deny everything and affirm naught but myself: because the sole truth of which I have material and moral proof and tangible, comprehensible and intelligible evidence, the only real, startling, non-arbitrary truth not susceptible to interpretation, is myself. I am. There I have a positive fact. Everything else is abstraction and, in mathematics, would be designated as "x", and unknown quantity; and I need not trouble myself with it.

What is the basic difference between saying 'I know that God exists' and saying 'I know that love exists'?