Practical gentlemen hate uncertainty, balancing of probabilities, skepticism or approximation. They have a number of bitterly satirical comments on persons whose minds are so open that their brains fall out. They are bent on getting to a conclusion. – Max Radin, 1937

Sometimes I think and other times I am. РPaul Val̩ry, Vari̩t̩: Cantiques spirituels, 1924