Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a read more

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

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.]

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

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 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.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall
with a sudden crash.
[Lat., Omnia sunt read more

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall
with a sudden crash.
[Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo:
Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.