Joshua

“If man could not commit suicide, he would not be man.”
― Joseph Parker, The People's Bible

“When anything has to be borne there is at once added the power to bear it steadfastly if we will only reflect calmly on this power and also take time to notice that which wants to manifest itself in the soul. When something painful appears, and when at the same time there is a sure feeling in the soul that forces are to be found which will make the pain bearable and with which we are able to connect ourselves, we are then able to take up such a position towards experiences, which would be unbearable in the course of our ordinary life, so that we seem to be the spectator of ourselves in all such experiences.”
― Rudolf Steiner

“Ich glaube, daß der Mensch sein Leben ganz in allen seinen Handlungen von Eingebungen leiten lassen kann, und ich muß jetzt glauben, daß dies das höchste Leben ist. Ich weiß, daß ich so leben könnte, wenn ich wollte, wenn ich dazu den Mut hätte. Ich habe ihn aber nicht und muß hoffen daß mich das nicht zu Tode, das heißt ewig, unglücklich machen wird.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Public and Private Occasions

“Of course, one is familiar with the experience of seeing something ambiguous. “Now it is the Taj Mahal—now it is fog.” And one can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled “fog.”
― Michael Frayn