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“Man proposes and dispose. He and he alone can determine whether he is completely master of himself, that is, whether he maintains the body of his desires, daily more formidable, in a state of anarchy.”
― Manifestoes of Surrealism
― Manifestoes of Surrealism
“If there are any persons who contest a received opinion,
or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, let us thank
them for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoice
that there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought,
if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality of
our convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves.”
― On Liberty
or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, let us thank
them for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoice
that there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought,
if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality of
our convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves.”
― On Liberty
“Truth, in the great practical concerns
of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and
combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently
capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an
approach to correctness, and it has to be made by the rough
process of a struggle between combatants fighting under
hostile banners.”
― On Liberty
of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and
combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently
capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an
approach to correctness, and it has to be made by the rough
process of a struggle between combatants fighting under
hostile banners.”
― On Liberty
“Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions.”
― The 48 Laws of Power
― The 48 Laws of Power
“If you can cut yourself—your mind—free of what other
people do and say, of what you’ve said or done, of the things
that you’re afraid will happen, the impositions of the body
that contains you and the breath within, and what the whirling
chaos sweeps in from outside, so that the mind is freed from
fate, brought to clarity, and lives life on its own recognizance
—doing what’s right, accepting what happens, and speaking
the truth—
If you can cut free of impressions that cling to the mind,
free of the future and the past—can make yourself, as
Empedocles says, “a sphere rejoicing in its perfect
stillness,” and concentrate on living what can be lived
(which means the present) . . . then you can spend the time
you have left in tranquillity. And in kindness. And at peace
with the spirit within you.”
― Meditations
people do and say, of what you’ve said or done, of the things
that you’re afraid will happen, the impositions of the body
that contains you and the breath within, and what the whirling
chaos sweeps in from outside, so that the mind is freed from
fate, brought to clarity, and lives life on its own recognizance
—doing what’s right, accepting what happens, and speaking
the truth—
If you can cut free of impressions that cling to the mind,
free of the future and the past—can make yourself, as
Empedocles says, “a sphere rejoicing in its perfect
stillness,” and concentrate on living what can be lived
(which means the present) . . . then you can spend the time
you have left in tranquillity. And in kindness. And at peace
with the spirit within you.”
― Meditations
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