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“It has always seemed strange to me ... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success.”
Cannery Row • John Steinbeck“One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.”
The Castle • Franz Kafka“All is ephemeral — fame and the famous as well.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“Keeping up appearances, living in borrowed finery, wearing masks, the drapery of convention, play-acting for the benefit of others and oneself ... the constant fluttering of human beings around the one flame of vanity is so much the rule and the law that there is virtually nothing which defies understanding so much as the fact that an honest and pure drive towards truth should ever have emerged in them. They are deeply immersed in illusions and dream-images; their eyes merely glide across the surface of things and see 'forms'; nowhere does their perception lead to truth.”
The Gay Science • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“ The challenge now is to develop human history as a science. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)