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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it - all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary - but love it.
from Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is by Friedrich Nietzsche (1888)
To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion what one is. From this point of view even the blunders of life have their own meaning and value - the occasional side roads and wrong roads, the delays, 'modesties,' seriousness wasted on tasks that are remote from the task. All this can express a great prudence, even the supreme prudence: where Know thyself would be the recipe for ruin, forgetting oneself, misunderstanding oneself, making oneself smaller, narrower, mediocre, become reason itself.
from Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is by Friedrich Nietzsche (1888)
Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane. - But one must be profound, an abyss, a philosopher to feel that way. - We are all afraid of truth.
from Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is by Friedrich Nietzsche (1888)
Accepting oneself as if fated, not wishing oneself 'different' - that is in such cases great reason itself.
from Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is by Friedrich Nietzsche (1888)
A man submits though his heart breaks with fury.
Achilles to Athena, from Line 255 of Book 1 in The Iliad by Homer (~700 B.C.)
Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
from "Prudence" in Essays: First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)
Sometimes you can't win no matter how you fight; that is, you can't win if you haven't got time.
from Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
from "Friendship" in Essays: First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)
I know there is truth opposite to falsehood, that it may be found if people will, and is worth the seeking, and is not only the most valuable, but the pleasantest thing in the world.
John Locke in a letter to William Molyneux, January 1698
No man can give another man power ... over that over which he has no power himself.
from Essay on Toleration by John Locke (1667)
No such laws be made, no such restraints established, for any other reason but because the necessity of the state and the welfare of the people called for them.
from Essay on Toleration by John Locke (1667)
I am inclined to believe that the heart and final guarantee of democracy is in free gatherings of neighbors on the street corner to discuss back and forth what is read in uncensored news of the day, and in gatherings of friends in the living rooms of houses and apartments to converse freely with one another.
from “Creative Democracy: The Task Before Us” by John Dewey (1939)
For there is an inherent difficulty about using the method of reason to deal with an unreasoning world.
from Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann (1922)
It is wrong, then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences [...], but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.
from The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1984)
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
from The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1984)
Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence [...] into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual's life.
from The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1984)
What happens but once, [...] might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.
from The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1984)