"I started having doubts right on top of my certainty."

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Source : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.40, Dial Press

David James Duncan

#Doubt Quotes #Certainty Quotes

“A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.”

Source : "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 17), 1952.
“People talk a lot about the Jackson's but then when you think about it, there is quite a lot to talk about.”
“It's easy for people to say stuff when they don't know the full story.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.”

Source : Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1968). “Addresses to the German nation”
“The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power.”

Source : Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.232, Routledge
“Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.”
“Throughout the journey of my life, I have maintained a strong faith in the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity. I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.”
“And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'”

Source : Clement of Alexandria (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Clement of Alexandria (Annotated Edition)”, p.341, Jazzybee Verlag

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