Quotes About Doubt

Reason in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

It is not doubt but certainty that drives you mad...

One should not go into churches if one wishes to breathe pure air.

Great intellects are skeptical.

What has shaken me is not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you.

Life no argument. - We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody now could endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit.

What strange, perplexing, questionable questions!

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions—? Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions

Not doubt, CERTAINTY is what drives one insane

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

wherever the strength of a faith steps decisively into the foreground, we infer a certain weakness in its ability to demonstrate its truth, even the improbability of what it believes. We, too, do not deny that the belief "makes blessed," but for that very reason we deny that the belief proves something—a strong belief which confers blessedness creates doubts about what it has faith in. It does not ground "truth." It grounds a certain probability— delusion.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

Wherever life and knowledge seemed to contradict each other, there was never any serious struggle: in such cases, denial and doubt amounted to madness.

hati terikat, jiwa bebas.--jika kau mengikat dan merantai hatimu kuatkuat, kau dapat memberikan banyak kebebasan pada jiwamu: itulah yang ku katakan pada suatu hari. akan tetapi orangorang tidak percaya, kecuali saat mereka benarbenar menemukannya

We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.

there may even be puritanical fanatics of conscience, who prefer to put their last trust in a sure nothing, rather than in an uncertain something.

synthetic judgments a priori should not be possible at all; we have no right to them; in our mouths they are nothing but false judgments.

I pray God to deliver me from God !