Steven Triassi

“If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonourable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonour remains.”
― Musonius Rufus, That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic

“The frivolity and boredom which unsettle the established order, the vague foreboding of something unknown, these are the heralds of approaching change. The gradual crumbling that left unaltered the face of the whole is cut short by a sunburst which, in one flash, illuminates the features of the new world.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

“Above all, it taught him how to listen, to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”
― Martin Heidegger