Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.
Mark HelprinTag: imagination certainty justice mankind cities
It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainty out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.
William Paul YoungTag: certainty god law uncertainty rules control spirit law-and-gospel control-freaks ocd
In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain
Pliny the ElderTag: certainty
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary
condition for knowledge.
Tag: certainty knowledge ignorance epistemology
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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
Ursula K. Le GuinTag: certainty knowledge humility ambiguity policy
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose BierceTag: humor certainty satire mistakes positive self-assurance errors assertions
One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.
Willy RussellTag: certainty
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
Ludwig WittgensteinThe South African artist William Kentridge speaks to this type of certainty: 'To say that one needs art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.'
The outcome of the current crisis is already determined.
Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are fallible or only probable. And the history of human error shows that a general consensus, or widespread and unquestioned feeling of certainty, does not preclude the possibility that the future may show us to be in error.
Morris R. CohenTag: error certainty omniscience generalizations fallible probable
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