“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
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“When the number of options available is limited, it is foolish to fuss and fret. We should instead simply choose the best of them and get on with life. To behave otherwise is to waste precious time and energy.”
― The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient
― The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient
“A person who is not inwardly prepared for the use of violence against him is always weaker than the person committing the violence.”
― The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
― The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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