Uncertainty/concepts

Famous quotes containing the words uncertainty and/or concepts:

“You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

“When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.”
—William James (1842–1910)