The soul can be fed only by divine certitudes; it can be enlarged only by walking according to the divine commandments.

Analytical and identical propositions which merely explicate the conception of the subject, but express nothing not already known, are, in spite of their indefeasible certitude, valueless for the extension of knowledge, and when taken for more than verbal explanations, mere absurdities.

With the perception came the awful, overwhelming certitude.

"Cimourdain had the blind certitude of the arrow, which only sees the mark and makes for it.

It is the falling away of the foundations of the soul, the disappearance forever of what is most to be prized on earth,its celestial certitudes.

Plato and Augustine maintained that they are eternal verities, not to be explained by definitions, appealing to consciousness, in the firm belief in which the soul sustains itself; that there can be no certain knowledge without a recognition of these; that from these only sound deductions of moral truth can be drawn; that without a firm belief in these eternal certitudes there can be no repose and no lofty faith.

Mathematical principles, like all others, have an experiential originthe peculiar certitude ascribed to them by the Kantians is a fictionand induction is the only fruitful method of scientific inquiry (even in mental science).

"One only denies the possible, Mr. Markham," she said with a glib certitude.

How delightfully he presents the endearments of home, the certitudes of friendship, the peace of agricultural life, the repose of all industrial pursuits, however humble and obscure!

So soon as uncertainty arises in the course of fulfilling a purpose, an idea or belief is formulated and acted on, to fill the gap where immediate certitude has broken down.

In excess of zeal she was not content with striving after this ideal of indefectible certitude, but, forgetting the diversity of the two fields, strove to imitate other qualities which are not transferable; instead of learning from mathematics she became subservient to it.

And as for old Rome, she vindicates more than ever her title to the epithet Eterna, by her similitude to those nursery toys which, throw them about as you will, still with infallible certitude come down heads uppermost.

The sublime idea, the lofty certitude which he had of abolishing suffering, of strengthening man's will, of making a new and a higher humanity, a healthy humanity, was assuredly only the beginning of the monomania of vanity.

The old chief pondered with the massive certitude of God, and Chugungatte seemed to wrap himself in the mists of a great antiquity.

But food is made for men as well as slaves, and if you, in your noble trustfulness, resolutely decline to reduce your daily rations, there must, with mathematical certitude of date, arrive the final period to any given and limited supply.

Thus, for the week following this day of days, Theophil and Isabel went about their daily lives with all heaven in their hearts, and, divided though they were, possessed by a mystical certitude of inner union which they felt no extension of space or endurance of time could destroy.

The two faces were lit up, each with an opposite emotion, each with an opposite certitude.

With the perception came the awful, overwhelming certitude.

Her very death had given him a paradoxical certitude of her immortality.

Mathematical principles, like all others, have an experiential originthe peculiar certitude ascribed to them by the Kantians is a fictionand induction is the only fruitful method of scientific inquiry (even in mental science).

Apart from legend it is a matter of reasonable certitude that the Maoris brought tattooing with them from Polynesia.

Thus opinion supplements the lack of certain knowledge, and serves as a guide for belief and action, wherever the general lot of mankind or individual circumstances prevent absolute certitude.

The object of religion, moreover, is accessible only to the subjective certitude of feeling which is given by faith, and not to scientific knowledge.

Accable mon coeur de cette certitude-là! J'agis