"And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore."

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Source : Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”

Joseph Glanvill

#Doubt Quotes #Needs Quotes #Certainty Quotes

“In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.”
“To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet”

Source : Li Po, “A Mountain Revelry”
“I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.”
“I feel like it's almost my purpose to speak up about my experience so it could help somebody else.”
“...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to bring about the millennium. I speak only for myself, mind - it is my own truth alone - but man as part of a movement or a crowd is indifferent to me. He is inhuman. And I have nothing to do with nations, or nationalism. The only feelings I have - for what they are - are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.”
“The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.”
“Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.”

Source : "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.
“The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.”

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