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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
The Decay of Lying • Oscar Wilde“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”
Man and Crisis • Jose Ortega y Gasset“To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and seek out our own solutions, the more inner freedom and strength we will gain. Only when we are willing to bear the brunt can we approximate the ideal of being the captain of our ship. Spurious tranquillity rooted in inner dullness is anything but enviable. It is bound to make us weak and an easy prey to any kind of influence.”
Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis • Karen Horney““And—such is my thinking, o Exalted One—no one attains deliverance through teaching!””
Siddhartha • Hermann Hesse“Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.”
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche