“Life is complicated. It’s filled with nuance. It’s unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt. The root cause of all life’s problems is looking for a simple fucking answer.”
—Anthony Bourdain https://t.co/fCvqAqf7Ik
“Life is complicated. It’s filled with nuance. It’s unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt. The root cause of all life’s problems is looking for a simple fucking answer.” —Anthony Bourdain https://t.co/fCvqAqf7Ik
Our doubts tend to be about whether we can get the satisfactions that we seek, not about the nature of these satisfactions.
Adam Phillips • Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
from an Absolute. I believe that one of the greatest mistakes made by human beings is to want certainties when trying to understand something. The search for knowledge is not nourished by certainty: it is nourished by a radical absence of certainty.
Carlo Rovelli • Helgoland
Life is a great deal more complex than people want to think it is. People want to believe that being, feeling, thinking, and doing what they are supposed to will get them everything they want. No problems, no hassles, no disappointments—do the right thing and get the right result. The flaw with this kind of thinking is simply that life is not that
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