D'Angelo

“To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

“Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

“Whatever the circumstances may be, always put the Invisible before the visible, the Supernatural before the natural; if this rule is applied to all your actions, we know that you will be equipped with strength and bathed with deep joy.”
― Léon Bloy, Correspondance

“The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought, for instance, that certain deer in paleontological times succumbed as they acquired overly-heavy horns. The mutations must be considered blind, they work, are thrown forth, without any contact of interest with their environment. In depressive states, the mind may be seen in the image of such an antler, in all its fantastic splendour pinning its bearer to the ground.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe, Essays