#uncertain

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know. ↗

— Marsilio Ficino

#doubt #hope #uncertainty #doubt

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#others #self-doubt #uncertainty #value #self-determination

The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#fight #identification #self-realization #uncertainly #self-realization

The road is not certain, and the end of the journey cannot be seen. ↗

— John Speed

#india

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#backward #begin #believed #epochs #i

You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence. ↗

— James Joyce

#desire #love #soul #uncertainty #beauty

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. ↗

— Robert Burns

#sure #sure thing #thing #uncertainty

You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty. ↗

— Jason Chaffetz

#such #taxes #times #uncertainty #you

Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#consulting #contribute #how #i #i can

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. ↗

— Democritus

#battle #children #life #only #raising