Pure Uncertainty Gives Life True Meaning

We can decide what to believe.

“The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers have hitherto spoken with respect, what questions has this Will to Truth not laid before us! What strange, perplexing, questionable questions! It is already a long story; yet it seems as if it were hardly commenced. Is it any wonder if we at last grow distrustful, lose patience, and turn impatiently away?”

Friedrich Nietzsche — Beyond Good and Evil

Humans have forever attempted to find an absolute truth to guide their lives, but this truth seems to always be out of our reach. Sometimes good questions about life give it more sense than the answers we come up with. Nevertheless, we’re always stuck in uncertainty. I have a simple proposal on our quest to find meaning: What if uncertainty in itself is what generates meaning? If we had an absolute truth, wouldn’t that take away the point? What if we believed in pure uncertainty to guide our lives?

Clarifying Pure Uncertainty

The fact that we will never know the true meaning of life gives us the freedom to decide what our meaning is. Based on this same premise, this first sentence could be wrong.