"The world is certainty a sudden place."
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"The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes."
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"We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness."
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"Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one."
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"The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other."
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"In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God."
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"Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion."
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"Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther."
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"Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood."
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"[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty."
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"That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!"
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"The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal."
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"Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]"
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"What I need most of all is certainty."
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"Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties"
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