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Tue 6 Jun 2017

Certain doubt

Posted by PJ under certainty, doubt, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”

—Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book I, v, 8

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Wed 17 Sep 2014

A cry of the heart

Posted by PJ under being human, doubt, quote of the day, the wound, what the living do
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“Man is inconsolable, thanks to the eternal ‘Why?’ when there is no Why, that question mark twisted like a fishhook in the human heart.”

—Peter De Vries, The Blood of the Lamb

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Mon 28 Oct 2013

Cocksure and cocksurer

Posted by PJ under certainty, doubt, intelligence, quote of the day, stupidity
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Random quote of the day:

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

—Bertrand Russell, “The Triumph of Stupidity,” Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell’s American Essays, 1931-1935

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Mon 9 Apr 2012

Havel

Posted by PJ under doubt, quote of the day, writing
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“I do not belong to that fortunate class of authors who write constantly, quickly, easily, and always well, whose imaginations never tire and who—unhampered by doubts of inhibitions—are by nature open to the world.  Whatever they touch, it is always right. That I do not belong in such company, of course, bothers me and sometimes even upsets me: I am ambitious and I’m angry with myself for having so few ideas, for finding it so difficult to write, for having so little faith in myself, and for thinking so much about everything that I often feel crippled by it.”

—Vaclav Havel, “Second Wind,” Open Letters and Summer Meditations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wed 4 Jan 2012

Without doubt

Posted by PJ under belief, doubt, madness, quote of the day
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“The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.”

—G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

 

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