Harry Miller

“The gods thought otherwise.
Dis aliter visum.”
― Virgil, Aeneid, Book 2. Edited With Introductory Notices, Notes, Complete Vocabulary and Illustrations

“All great things bring about their own destruction through an act of self-overcoming: thus the law of life will have it, the law of the necessity of "self-overcoming" in the nature of life—the lawgiver himself eventually receives the call: "patere legem, quam ipse tulisti" [submit to the law you yourself proposed]. In this way Christianity as a dogma was destroyed by its own morality; in the same way Christianity as morality must now perish too: we stand on the threshold of this event. After Christian truthfulness has drawn one inference after another, it must end by drawing its most striking inference, its inference against itself; this will happen, however, when it poses the question, "what is the meaning of all will to truth?" . . . And here I again touch on my problem, on our problem [ . . . ]: what meaning would our whole being possess if it were not this, that in us the will to truth becomes conscious of itself as a problem? . . . As the will to truth thus gains self-consciousness, from now on—there is no doubt about it—morality will go to ruin: this is the great spectacle in a hundred acts reserved for the next two centuries in Europe—the most terrible, most questionable, and perhaps also the most hopeful of spectacles.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

“A sailor’s joys are as simple as a child’s.”
― Bernard Moitessier, The Long Way: Sheridan House Maritime Classic

“If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than who you are.”
― Master Shifu