#certainty

[philosophybits]

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

#philosophy #quotes #Bertrand Russell #The Problems of Philosophy #knowledge #certainty #doubt #uncertainty #skepticism

[pratchettquotes]

A thought in her head said No. It was overruled. She'd made up her mind.

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

#polly perks #monstrous regiment #discworld #terry pratchett #uncertainty #certainty #internal dialogue #overruled #decision making #she'd made up her mind

[rchetypal]

"To be in doubt is a more normal condition than certainty. To confess that you doubt, to admit that you never know for certain, is the supremely human condition; for to be able to suffer the doubt, to carry the doubt, means that one is able to carry the other side."

— C.G. Jung

#carl jung #psychology #jung #doubt #certainty #human condition #suffer doubt

[apoemaday]

Certainty

by Octavio Paz

If the white light of this lamp is real, and the hand that writes is real, then are the eyes that observe what I write also real?

From one word to another what I say evaporates. I know that I am alive between two parentheses.

#poetry #octavio paz #certainty #tr. paul weinfield

[dk-thrive]

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know.

— C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Knopf, January 26, 2011) (via Make Believe Boutique)

#C.G. Jung #self aware #self knowledge #certainty #doubt

[heartofmuse]

I never doubt what you are,

The truth of your heart, 

The sincerity that is your core, 

How much you love,

I have peace and certainty in my heart, 

So freedom blossoms as a beautiful flower in our entwined hands.

e.v.e. 

#spilled ink #spilled thoughts #poets on tumblr #quote #writers on tumblr #writerscreed #quotes #poeticstories #bitsofstarglow #inkstay #love #couples #peace #belief #certainty #trust #freedom #poets of tumblr #writers of tumblr

[yesterdays-xkcd]

a(b+c)=(ab)+(ac). Politicize that, bitches.

Certainty [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[A door seen from a hallway, with "Teachers' Lounge" on the glass. Next to the door, a framed "Award" certificate is displayed. Silhouetted through the glass, two teachers can be seen talking.] Megan: My students drew me into another political argument. Cueball: Eh; it happens. Megan: Lately, political debates bother me. They just show how good smart people are at rationalizing.

[Internal view of the room. The two teachers, Megan and Cueball, continue talking. Megan has her arms raised. Miss Lenhart is seen reading a book on a sofa.] Megan: The world is so complicated - the more I learn, the less clear anything gets. There are too many ideas and arguments to pick and choose from. How can I trust myself to know the truth about anything? Megan: And if everything I know is so shaky, what on Earth am I doing teaching?

[Megan and Cueball continue talking. Cueball has his hand raised. Miss Lenhart has looked up from her book.] Cueball: I guess you just do your best. No one can impart perfect universal truths to their students. Miss Lenhart: *ahem* Cueball: ...Except math teachers. Miss Lenhart: Thank you.

#xkcd #xkcd 263 #certainty #2000s #2007

[random-xpressions]

Of all the stations that your heart may traverse upon, nothing is more fruitful and rewarding like certainty. When you literally see with your eyes, hear with your ears and experience things happening in the real world and when the truths you grasped and when your beliefs are reemphasized by the events around and in your own life - that's when fruits of certainty are reaped making one even more convinced. It is as though your heart's belief is what steers the universe around you. Be careful of what you believe in, it has got the potential to change the world...

Random Xpressions

#the ultimate catalyst #certainty #conviction

[ksjanes]

The wonder of what is behind the door, what mystery awaits. This wonder gives birth to curiosity. Open up and be willing to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. We are learning and growing, as long we let go of certainty and embrace a good mystery.

K.S. Janes

#photographers on tumblr #door #quote #mystery #wonder #certainty

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them." -- Bill Maher

Like "heaven," "hell" and "gender identity."

#Bill Maher #certainty #ridiculous #ridiculous ideas #criticism of ideas #ideology #religion #religion is a mental illness

[philosophybits]

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

#philosophy #quotes #Bertrand Russell #The Problems of Philosophy #questions #answers #possibility #imagination #certainty #uncertainty #awareness #self #world

[pratchettquotes]

I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS RIGHT. OR WRONG. JUST PLACES TO STAND.

"No, right's right and wrong's wrong," said Miss Flitworth. "I was brought up to tell the difference."

BY A CONTRABANDISTOR.

"A what?"

A MOVER OF CONTRABAND.

"There's nothing wrong with smuggling!"

I MERELY POINT OUT THAT SOME PEOPLE THINK OTHERWISE.

"They don't count!"

Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

#DEATH #bill door #miss flitworth #reaper man #discworld #terry pratchett #philosophy #morality #ethics #right and wrong #good and bad #certainty #relative #smuggling #contrabandistor #places to stand #they don't count

[frommyfavoritebooks]

At the end of the day, it is quite simple — there are so many uncertain and confusing things in life, but love should never be one of them. Love should never be one of them.

- a gentle reminder, bianca sparacino

#a gentle reminder #bianca sparacino #love #lover #couple #partnership #relationship #marriage #husband #wife #boyfriend #girlfriend #partner #confused #feelings #certainty

[unabashedqueenfury]

Reign 2013-17/02-22

Toby Finn Regbo as Francis Valois

#francis de valois #toby regbo #season2 #reign #02×22 #mary stuart #adelaide kane #frary #mary×francis #i love you francis i always have #love #fraryOTP #tobelaide #team frary #eyes #smile #certainty #face expression #king of france #quotes

[dk-thrive]

Can you imagine having that kind of faith?

"Can you imagine having that kind of faith?” Cyrus asked. “To be that certain of something you’ve never seen? I’m not that certain of anything. I’m not that certain of gravity.” “That certainty is what put worms in their brains, Cyrus. The only people who speak in certainties are zealots and tyrants.” “Sure, sure. But there’s no tiny secret part of you that envies that clarity? That conviction?

— Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!: A Novel (Knopf, January 23, 2024)

#kaveh akbar #faith #certainty #God #Martyr!

[howifeltabouthim]

It's not that I didn't care if I died. It's that I knew I would survive.

Lisa Taddeo, from Animal

#survival #death #danger #bleak #depressing #certainty #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #lisa taddeo #animal