Become Less Interesting With Age

Become Less Precious When You Own Them

Become Less Real With Age

Become More Precious When They End

Decay

Disappear

End Conversations

Erode

Exist To Be Lost

Happen Only In Your Head

Pretend To Be Permanent

Punish Assumptions

Punish Familiarity

Quietly Contract

Seem Permanent Until They Aren’t

Tempt

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is a most absurd foible. If one is in the right, it lessens the triumph, if one is in the wrong, it adds shame to the defeat.

Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph... if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. Laurence Sterne

is a mental state, a feeling like anger or pride that can help guide us, but that doesn't dependably reflect objective truth.

Certainty is a mental state, a feeling like anger or pride that can help guide us, but that doesn't dependably reflect objective truth.

is a neurotic fantasy for a surgically removed brain.

As in Curt Siodmak's novel Donovan's Brain, absolute certainty is the sort of neurotic fantasy that only a surgically removed mind would look for after it had lost everything else' (Latour 1999:4)

is actually presupposed in any attempt at doubting.

The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty' (Wittgenstein On Certainty 115)

is, along with security, such that a free man is by necessity insecure and a thinking man by necessity uncertain.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain. Erich Fromm

is an absurd one while doubt is merely an unpleasant condition.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. (Voltaire)

is, as it were, a tone of voice, one in which one declares how things are.

30. When someone has made sure of something, he says: 'Yes, the calculation is right', but he did not infer that from his condition of certainty. One does not infer how things are from one's own certainty. Certainty is as it were a tone of voice in which one declares how things are, but one does not infer from the tone of voice that one is justified. (wittgenstein On Certainty #30)

is having the highest degree of credibility, either intrinsically or as a result of argument.

Bertrand Russell says that 'A proposition is certain when it has the highest degree of credibility, either intrinsically or as a result of argument' (1948, p. 396)

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