Quotes about Ambiguity

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.

Everyone is wrong about the future.

We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our precious lives nor perfect it in our lives to come

We can never know what to want, because, only living one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor the perfect it in our lives to come.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lived to come.

We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, Hermann Göring about the Reichstag fire? Why don't Sophocles, Democritus, and Aristarchus dictate their lost books?

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

It's pleasant to sit by, a demi-god, and hear the surmisings of mortals, upon things they know nothing about; theology, or amber, or ambergris, it's all the same. But then, did I always out with every thing I know, there would be no conversing with these comical creatures.

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.

Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.