Voltaire Quotes About Certainty

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  • We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

    Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1207, e-artnow
  • Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

  • He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

  • Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

    Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”
  • What can we say with certainty?

  • Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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