We all have doubts about many issues. I am not an exception.
As Fyodor Dostoyevski wrote in one of this letter, the human is a divine and eternal mystery. We do not know why we appeared on this world. Who or what brought us here? Did we emerge on the planet Earth accidentally? Moreover, we do not know what the purpose of our life is. We can’t say about ourselves (about the humankind as a whole) the universal truth because we do not know it.
In the same way, we are not able to describe ourselves as a single human. Thus, I know that even if we are in one hundred percent sure of something about ourselves, I believe that this approach could mislead us somehow. Like Sir Francis Bacon wrote in his “The Advancement of Learning”:
“If a man begins with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
In general, I agree with this statement. It is one reason why I often possess a skeptic attitude in my life to many issues. The general knowledge and science do not bring us the answers to many existential problems we have to face. Thanks to science, we are continually moving forward to know “The Unknown,” but we will never be able to understand the universe entirely. We are not able to discover all the truths about surrounding us, the world.
The same is with ourselves.
We are not able to adequately describe ourselves. Every single person cannot say in 100% of certainty that he/she knows everything about himself/herself. I am convinced that my biography (maybe such a book will be published someday) will possess many understatements and riddles. It is impossible to write the universal truth both about the universe and the single person. We had, have, and will have many doubts regarding many aspects of our living and surrounding us, world.
