“There is no certainty; there is only adventure.”
Roberto Assagioli (1888–1974) Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (1888-1974)
“The detour to ideality leads to coinciding with oneself, that is, to certainty, which remains the guide and guarantee of the whole spiritual adventure of being.”
The Levinas reader by Levinas, Emmanuel p. 89
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