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“The universe is transformation: life is opinion. ”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything”
The Castle • Franz Kafka“The soul, being a harmony, can never utter a note at variance with the tensions and relaxations and vibrations and other affections of the strings out of which she is composed; she can only follow, she cannot lead them? ...And yet do we not now discover the soul to be doing the exact opposite—leading the elements of which she is believed to be composed; almost always opposing and coercing them in all sorts of ways throughout life... threatening and reprimanding the desires, passions, fears, as if talking to a thing which is not herself...”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce““The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli