“Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. Your love, Sinclair, is attracted by me. When it begins to attract me, I will come. I will not”
Hermann Hesse
“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.”
Erich Fromm
“If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.”
William Lyon Phelps
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.”
Voltaire
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.”
“Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about ~where~ we shall land, but rather on the belief that we ~shall~ land.”
Carter Heyward
