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Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
[Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernae crastina read more
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
[Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernae crastina summae
Tempora di superi?]
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
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My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smothered in surmise and nothing is
But what is not.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his read more
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
This
I ever held worse that all certitude,
To know not what the worst ahead might be.
This
I ever held worse that all certitude,
To know not what the worst ahead might be.
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse
directs it to either side.
[Lat., read more
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse
directs it to either side.
[Lat., Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc
impellitur.]
An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
