doubt Quotes

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

I'm not a natural joiner.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

It was reading Hamlet that ruined the concept of authenticity for me, not because Hamlet lacked existentialist credentials himself - indeed, as an earlier discontented Dane, he could be said to have laid the ground for Kierkegaard - but because the line 'to thine own self be true' was spoken by that humourless old ninny, Polonius.

I am enthralled until the last ball Djokovic hits, and the moment it is over and he is on his knees eating grass, I sink into my chair, cannot believe I have spent another fleeting fortnight of the few summers I have left caring about the outcome of contests I will have forgotten in the blink of an eye, and begin to question my sanity.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.