Polytimi

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche