Quotes About Certainty

You have to be absolutely sure. Otherwise, regret will grow in spaces you don't even know are there.

Because, my dear, it is good to remember that you do not always have to see something to know that it is there.

If I think it's true, no matter why or how I think it's true, then it's true, and nobody can tell me otherwise.

THE BIG PIECE of secular conventional wisdom about Protestantism has been that it gave a self-righteous oomph to moneymaking and capitalism—hard work accrues to God's glory, success looks like a sign of His grace. But it seems clear to me the deeper, broader, and more enduring influence of American Protestantism was the permission it gave to dream up new supernatural or otherwise untrue understandings of reality and believe them with passionate certainty.

Protestantism has been that it gave a self-righteous oomph to moneymaking and capitalism—hard work accrues to God's glory, success looks like a sign of His grace. But it seems clear to me the deeper, broader, and more enduring influence of American Protestantism was the permission it gave to dream up new supernatural or otherwise untrue understandings of reality and believe them with passionate certainty.

I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

Bemerkung: Sonderbarerweise sind auch die Tatsachen, welche wir absolut sicher wissen (2 + 2 = 4, ich heiße Kurt) aus Begriffen zusammengesetzt, die wir nicht vollkommen verstehen (und die sehr kompliziert sind). 2 Erklärungen dafür: 1.) Das Einfache in der Welt sind die Tatschen und nicht die Begriffe. 2.) Diese sicheren Tatschen sind so, dass sie bei einem sehr weiten Spielraum von möglichen Interpretationen für Begriffe gelten.

Der Deutsche fährt nicht wie andere Menschen. Er fährt, um recht zu haben.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.

ISI. "Can I also assume that

this epidemic of fear was not born out of some genuine, daily increasing certainty of disaster but of an infection of the imagination whose susceptibility to its own terrors might eventually lead to an actual catastrophe, in other words the false premonition that a man who had lost his bearings might succumb to once the inner structure of his life

Men who know are secure and Men who don't know believe in luck.

Yeah, you're probably right. Henley was

if you desire to know God's voice, never consider the final outcome or the possible results. Obey Him even when He asks you to move while you still see only darkness, for He Himself will be a glorious light within you.

But Thierry was shaking his head. "It doesn't matter." His voice was still quiet, but it was filled with the authority of absolute conviction, a kind of bedrock certainty that held even Hannah mesmerized.

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical.

If I don't know I don't know I think I know If I don't know I know I think I don't know

As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable "something else," but now it was the opposite. Here, in the circle of Akiva's presence, even as they spoke of war and siege and enduring enmity, she felt herself being drawn into the warm absoluteness and rightness of him, like he was both place and person and, contrary to all reason, exactly where she was supposed to be.

To be one of a pair of bodies that knew that melting fusion. To reach and find. To be and reached for and found. To belong to a mutual certainty. To wake up holding hands.

And for the first time in a long, long time, Karou felt the truth of it. Her heart was not wrong.

For fifteen years, the people of Weep had lived with the certainty that the monsters were dead, and Eril-Fane had lived with the burden of it.

When an essential one comes along, you'll know,

Seize the night. And I blink and feel a surge of certainty and excitement, because of course that's what one does when one wants something. One seizes it. Well, maybe not all things. Cats, for example, do not respond well to seizure. Probably girls don't, either. So this might not be a good credo in life, but for Saturday nights in general and this one in particular, it works.