![Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature [of d'Holbach] - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried to prove the impossibility. (Voltaire)](https://cdn.quotesdtb.com/img/quotes_images_webp/23/voltaire-absurd-audacity-certainty-445123.webp)
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature [of d'Holbach] - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried to prove the impossibility.
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Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world.
John Calvin
