Quotes About Doubt

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

numai in indoiala sunt profetii si fanaticii cu adevarat umani.

In all the edifice of thought, I have not found a category upon which to rest my head.

The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.

All that is Life in me urges me to give up God.

But man is a strayed animal, and when he falls victim to doubt, if he should happen to take no further pleasure in attacking others, he turns on himself in order to inflict merciless tortures.

The man too lucid to worship will also be too lucid to wreck, or will wreck only his … rebellions; for what is the use of rebelling only to discover, afterwards, a universe intact? A paltry monologue.

A fi sau a nu fi? Nici una nici alta.

Cei s?n?toÅŸi nu sunt reali. Au totul, în afar? de fiin?? - pe care doar o s?n?tate îndoielnic? Å£i-o d?.

Bluntly: my rebellion is a faith to which I subscribe without believing in it.

J'ai cherché dans le doute un remède contre l'anxiété. Le remède a fini par faire cause commune avec le mal.

Cand nu mai crezi in iubire, poti inca sa iubesti, dupa cum poti lupta fara convingeri.Totusi, si intr-un caz si in altul,ceva s-a frant.Un edificiu caruia fisura ii tine loc de stil.

Când m? gândesc ce puÅ£in am de înv??at de la marii filozofi! Niciodat? n-am avut nevoie de Kant, de Descartes sau de Aristotel, care n-au gândit decât pentru orele noastre sigure, pentru îndoielile noastre permise. Dar m-am oprit la Iov cu pietatea unui str?nepot.

We begin to live authentically only where philosophy ends, at its wreck, when we have understood its terrible nullity, when we have understood that it was futile to resort to it, that it is no help.

Nu te temi de viitor decât atunci când nu eÅŸti sigur c? te poÅ£i omorî la momentul dorit.

S? ne îndoim de cei care care întorc spatele iubirii,ambiÅ£iei,societ??ii.AceÅŸtia se vor r?zbuna pentru motivul de a fi renunÅ£at la toate acestea.Istoria ideilor e istoria rachiunei singuraticului.

Pentru om, viaÈ›a nu e un absolut. De aceea, niciun om, întrucât nu e numai animal, nu g?seÈ™te o mulÈ›umire în faptul însuÈ™i al vieÈ›ii, în faptul de a tr?i. Pentru animal, viaÈ›a e totul; pentru om, ea este un semn de întrebare.

N'a de convictions que celui qui n'a rien approfondi

Omul e f?r? îndoial? o apariÅ£ie extraordinar?, dar nu o reuÅŸit?.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

A little more fervor in my nihilism and I might — gainsaying everything — shake off my doubts and triumph over them. But I have only the taste of negation, not its grace.

The mind that puts everything in question reaches, after a thousand interrogations, an almost total inertia, a situation which the inert, in fact, knows from the start, by instinct. For what is inertia but a congenital perplexity?

And if Indifference fills him to overflowing, if he makes it into a reality as vast as the universe itself, it is because Indifference is the practical equivalent of doubt, and in his eyes does doubt not have the prestige of the Unconditioned?

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.