“To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.”
“The South African artist William Kentridge speaks to this type of certainty: 'To say that one needs art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.'The outcome of the current crisis is already determined.”
“No one can know a false thing, one can only believe it with certainty until it is contradicted. (Page 7)”
“...So I stopped talking about it. There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
“One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.”
“A problem is something to solve," Phillip says. "If there's no solutions, it's not a problem, so stop treating it like one.”