“I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.” DoeLawFoundNaturalLossGriefFailingAddictionConvincedCertaintyLiberalismDelusionFundRetiringOddsSchemesAddictNatural LawArithmeticRoulette Author:David Mamet
“Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.” LawProduceStatementsCertaintyUncertaintyLaws Of Nature Book:New York Source: New York
“we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord that will so trouble the divine harmonies that in the rebound we shall find each man his own hell! The sooner we arrive at this knowledge, the sooner we take the certainty to our souls, the sooner do our lives begin to assume the square allotted to us.” MenSoulLawUniverseJusticeBreakHellOur LivesTroubleDivineEternalHarmonyAssumingCertaintySquaresJarsDiscordRebound Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman
“Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.” LawMotherCommonAimCertaintyMischiefReposeCommon Law Author:Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke