Adolf Hitler Quotes

To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole unleashed skeptical forces which, outside of the tightly controlled environment of a rigorous philosophical debate, led a lot of people to throw their hands up in despair and think 'what's the point?'. A lot of the public perception of philosophy is that it leaves you with no answers, and more confused than you were at the beginning.

We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

What can we say with certainty?

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

I don't know what I believe.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

Science is uncertain.

Most things may never happen: this one will.

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.