Quotes 21 till 35 of 35.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of Uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets.
Works (1787) -
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
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Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
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War is the province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.
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War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.
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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Pensees -
With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
On War (1832) -
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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