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““Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; / Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?””
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam“To ordain the future in advance in this way, man must first have learned to distinguish necessary events from chance ones, to think causally, to see and anticipate distant eventualities as if they belonged to the present, to decide with certainty what is the goal and what the means to it, and in general be able to calculate and compute.”
Genealogy of Morals • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Anxiety and nothing always correspond to each other. As soon as the actuality of freedom and of spirit is posited, anxiety is canceled. But what then does the nothing of anxiety signify more particularly in paganism. This is fate. Fate is a relation to spirit as external. It is the relation between spirit and something else that is not spirit and to which fate nevertheless stands in a spiritual relation. Fate may also signify exactly the opposite, because it is the unity of necessity and accidental. ... A necessity that is not conscious of itself is eo ipso the accidental in relation to the next moment. Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.”
The Concept of Anxiety • Soren Kierkegaard“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”
Pride and Prejudice • Jane Austen“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.”
Counsels and Maxims • Arthur Schopenhauer