Herman Melville Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Doubt, Atheism

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.181, Velvet Element Books

• And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

  Herman Melville

  Eye, Men, Fog

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.416, Velvet Element Books

• Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

  Herman Melville

  Doubt, Atheism, Literature

  1851 Moby Dick, ch.7.

• There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Doubt, Solve

  Herman Melville (1857). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.339

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