131 Quotes

“The South African artist William Kentridge speaks to this type of certainty: 'To say that one needs art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.'

The outcome of the current crisis is already determined.”
― Nick Flynn, The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir

“... capable of maintaining and advocating a stance which negated all that he had gleaned from his earlier clarifications.”
― Ernesto Spinelli, Tales of Un-Knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective