#lit

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect. ↗

— Gennifer Choldenko

#optimism #possibility #uncertainty #uncertainty

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#honesty #narrowness #uncertainty #uncertainty

Yet if there really were a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions—so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from the evidence? Might it not equally well determine that we draw the wrong conclusion? Or no conclusion at all? Stephen Hawking ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#science #equality

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#truth #uncertainty

Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does. ↗

— C.S. Friedman

#sci-fi #science

Good, don't think. Thinking is highly overrated. ↗

— M.J. Auch

#equality

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. ↗

— Confucius

#safety

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other. ↗

— Thaddeus Golas

#inspiration #inspirational #inspired #inspiring #philosophy

We are just a certain quantity of cells, all of us! ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#humanity #inspirational #self #equality

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you. ↗

— Karen Joy Fowler

#punctuality #manners