If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
The idea of God is the ignorance which solves all doubt by repressing it.
“The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.”
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
There can be no doubt that the Anarchist Idea, denying government, is by its very nature opposed to violence, which is the essence of every authoritarian system - the mode of action of every government
I only live for the moments I am in the podium and in order to live those moments, I spend my life preparing myself with discipline, doubts and humility.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music.
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn’ fool if they weren’t.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
“What are men? Children who doubt.”