Jorge Luis Borges Quotes on Uncertainty
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors . . . Perhaps I would have liked to be my father, who wrote and had the decency of not publishing. Nothing, nothing, my friend; what I have told you: I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. . . Can you imagine that I not even know the date of my death?
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.