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“We may, indeed, indulge in sport and jest, but in the same way as we enjoy sleep or other relaxations, and only when we have satisfied the claims of our earnest, serious task”
On Duties • Marcus Tullius Cicero“How many things are now called the worst evil, which are only twelve feet wide and three months long! But some day greater dragons will come into the world.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra • F Nietzsche“The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been [sated] with the knowledge that he could not eat?”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset“Newspapers ... chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatsoever.”
The Critic as Artist • Oscar Wilde““No one, not even the starvation artist himself knew how great his achievement really was, and his heart grew heavy.” ”
A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka