[PW] Voltaire Quote

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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. Voltaire, letter to Frederick the Great, 1767" 

Quoted by, Jay F. Rosenberg, Thinking about Knowing (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002) 60 


Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote: 
Is anyone able to provide any information about the following quotation, 
said to be by Voltaire:

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one."

Fred Shapiro


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