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To live with the tension of opposing truths ‘without any irritable reaching after fact and reason’. I’ve always thought that the most powerful word in Keats’s famous celebration of uncertainty in his theory of Negative Capability is irritable, with its root in the Latin for anger, the engine that propels most of our intrusions into the lives of oth
... See moreRichard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
The answer to most either/or questions is both; the best response to a paradox is to embrace both sides instead of cutting off one or the other for the sake of coherence. The question is about negotiating a viable relationship between the local and the global, not signing up with one and shutting out the other.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Noël Theodosiou • The Radical Potential of Semiotics & Cultural Strategy
Embracing Uncertainty.8 Not knowing what’s coming next – which is the situation you’re always in, with regard to the future – presents an ideal opportunity for choosing curiosity (wondering what might happen next) over worry (hoping that a certain specific thing will happen next, and fearing it might not) whenever you can.