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Certainty #27: "Hold on fast to the only certainty in this world, which is the certainty of Love and Care." —Willa Cather, in a letter to Sarah Wyman Whitman, 1898
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Certainty #25: "The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive and experience it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as You perceive and experience it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many 'real worlds' as there are people!" —Carl Rogers, qtd. in Power Partnering by Sean Gadman, 1996 --- Jeff observes: This may be the root of human conflict. The perception is the reality, but everything we think we understand about others is only in terms of what we know about ourselves, which is by no means certain.
It is to hoot.
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Certainty #21: "The present moment: the only certainty. This night is a single night; and there has never been any other." — Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, 1977
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Certainty #18: "The search for absolute certainty in nature is a fruitless search, because the only certainty is uncertainty, according to the law of uncertainty." — Keith N. Ferreira, Uncertaintyism, 2005 --- Cuc writes: This certainty is more accurate than #2 mentioning change, or #3 mentioning movement, change and metamorphosis. There is a difference between these concepts and #18 that I like to clarify.
This certainty #18 calls it rightfully the "Law of Uncertainty". This does not necessarily refer to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. There is a vaster Law of Uncertainty. It does not mean that everything is uncertain, but that there is a flip side to Uncertainty, namely Opportunity. So, if there is a Law of Uncertainty, then there is a Law of Opportunity, which states that it is certain (#19 ?) that Opportunities will occur for anything determined by a will towards the future (see #12). This Law of Uncertainty is therefore the only Law that can be used in our advantage by using the will, despite the fact that humanity seems to prefer certainty (as the title of this page suggests).
Change and Metamorphosis are not really certain, because the perception of these is subjective. The concepts attached to change and metamorphosis are not as absolute as the Law of Uncertainty. Opportunities arise because of the will and one could call the appearance of an opportunity a change, a phase in the metamorphosis. But more elementary, the Law of Uncertainty has provided the opportunity for these to occur.
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Certainty #15: "The ethical is the only certainty, to concentrate upon this the only knowledge that does not change into a hypothesis at the last moment, to be in it the only secure knowledge." —Johannes Climacus ( Soren Kierkegaard), Concluding Unscientific Postscript, 1846
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Certainty #12: "The sole certainty is that only our unbending will toward the future gives meaning and support to the merest effort." — Richard Wolin, Labyrinths, 1995
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