Quotes by category:Doubt

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Aldous Huxley

political doubt philosophy

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

Aldous Huxley

ignorant doubt here-i-am

For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Aldous Huxley

political doubt philosophy

In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.

Aldous Huxley

doubt dog years

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Aldous Huxley

secret doubt men

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Alec Waugh

support doubt men

One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.

Aleister Crowley

next elements doubt

I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.

Alejandro Zambra

doubt writing thinking

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

Aleksandar Hemon

neurosurgeons doubt brain

We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

vision doubt years

However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

wave immigration doubt

... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

maxims doubt

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes you just know.

Alex Ferguson

player doubt sometimes

I will always support legalization of the entheogens, which are, without a doubt, the most important and the most grossly misunderstood medicines on earth.

Alex Grey

misunderstood support doubt

I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting so much money going back to this place, taking more pictures? What’s the point of it? No one cares about it. I think I care about it but maybe I am deceiving myself.

Alex Webb

doubt mean thinking

You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give.

Alexander MacLaren

shadow doubt giving

To teach vain Wits that Science little known,

Alexander Pope

doubt littles science

The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

Alexander Pope

doubt sides long

Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

Alexander Pope

silent silence doubt

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,

Alexander Pope

wise doubt fear