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“Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose.”

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Book:The Works of George Berkeley ...: Philosophical works, 1732-33: Alciphron. The theory of vision

Source: The Works of George Berkeley ...: Philosophical works, 1732-33: Alciphron. The theory of vision

“I'm a man of a certain age - old enough to have been every kind of fool- and I find to my surprise that the only counsel I have to pass on is this: Never let your name be found in a dead man's trousers.”

Men Kind Has Beens Enough Age Certain Found Names Fool Surprise Dead Man Trousers

Book:The Black Tower: A Novel

Source: The Black Tower: A Novel

“Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.”

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Author:Gertrude Atherton

“There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.”

Ifs Certain Fool Training University Folly Stamps You Like It

Author:William Gerhardie

“Only the fools are certain and assured.”

Wisdom Certain Fool Assured Defiance

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.”

People Certain Choices Fool Fortune Commit Folly

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.”

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Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“The fool rushed to certain conclusions. The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection. And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way.”

Men Way Certain Wise Fool Decided Rounds Conclusion Another Way Afar Circumspection

Book:Little stings

Source: Little stings

“There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.”

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Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.”

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Author:Edward Teller

“Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.”

“The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.”

Way Kind Has Beens Might Political Certain Opinion Danger Fool Idealism Retreat Scorned Political Opinions

Author:Susan Sontag

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

“As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.”

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Book:Emily Climbs

Source: Emily Climbs

“I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and politics and music and film, and developing, too, a certain skill in manipulating and arranging these pitiful shards so that they glittered and caught the light. Fool's gold, or priceless nuggets mined from my singular childhood's rich bohemian seam? I leave it to others to decide.”

Kind Art Book Facts Light Film Certain Rich Childhood Information Fool Skills Gold Caught Developing Gathering Priceless Scrap Pitiful Art History Arranging Bohemian Nuggets Magpies

Book:The Moor's last sigh

Source: The Moor's last sigh

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