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“Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down into the yawning abyss becomes dizzy. But what is the reason for this? It is just as much in his own eye as in the abyss, for suppose he had not looked down. Hence, anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into its own possibility, laying hold of finiteness to support itself. Freedom succumbs to dizziness. Further than this, psychology cannot and will not go. In that very moment everything is changed, and freedom, when it again rises, sees that it is guilty. Between these two moments lies the leap, which no science has explained and which no science can explain. He who becomes guilty in anxiety becomes as ambiguously guilty as it is possible to become.”
The Concept of Anxiety • Soren Kierkegaard“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
Back to Methusaleh • George Bernard Shaw“Variant translation: Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
Crime And Punishment • Fyodor Dostoevski“Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill“The ultimate form of intrinsic motivation is when a habit becomes part of your identity. It’s one thing to say I’m the type of person who wants this. It’s something very different to say I’m the type of person who is this.”
Atomic Habits • James Clear