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“An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything.”

Life Persons Certain Smart Extremes Stupidity Dumb Uncertainty

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.”

Life Looks Mean Seems Certain Secret Higher Claims Cherish Satisfying Nurse Vulgar Commonplace

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“We've been told there's a certain way to live ... that this is living ... and we ... we never really questioned it. We just sort of went along. But what if it's not the best way? What if there's another way that's better? What if there's something more?!”

Ifs Way Life Certain Best Way What If Another Way Way To Live

Author:Walter Wykes

“I accept that life is uncertain--that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing--a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.”

Life Life Is Certain Next Goal Water Accepting Knowing Mystery Miracle Peaceful Certainty Faithful Relax Not Knowing Uncertain

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place.”

Men World Life Long Certain Next Dying Isolation Tombs Desolate Nightfall

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling. Life is so short, and so ridiculous and irrational (from a certain point of view) that one knows not what to make of it, unless--well, finish the sentence for yourself.”

Knows Life Years Wells Feelings Care Life Is Certain Views Constitution Sentences Point Of View Ridiculous Cynicism Irrational Disposition Good Feeling Life Is So Short

Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.”

World Life States Certain Existence This World Deny

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years more; this thought is soul-shattering for all of us as human beings. It is horrible to think that the crimes committed by this one man Hitler have these many years been destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands and millions, and one would despair entirely were it not certain that the majority, the innumerable majority which opposes him openly or secretly, will succeed in wiping out once and for all him and his.”

Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

“A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.”

Life Certain Quality Danger Amount Essentials Quality Of Life

Book:The Spirit of St. Louis

Source: The Spirit of St. Louis

“You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.”

People Life Long Country Christian Guy Certain Interesting Groups Long Time Terrorism Realistic Very Interesting Montana

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“You may be asking yourselves, 'Who is this man standing before us?' i would like to reply to that question with something absolutely certain about my own life: The man standing before you is a man who has been forgiven. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins.”

Men Life May Has Beens Certain My Own Sin He Man Standing Asking Saved Forgiven My Own Life

Author:Pope Francis

“Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.”

Life Science Certain Universe Property Atoms Carbon Exceptional

Author:James Jeans

“Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.”

Life Inspirational Certain Quality Greatness Inspirational Life Size

Author:Phillips Brooks

“In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.”