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“It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.”
Persuasion • Jane Austen“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“Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. ”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius“The species with eyes appears suddenly, capriciously as it were, and it is this species which changes the environment by creating its visible aspect. The eye does not come into being because it is needed. Just the contrary; because the eye appears it can henceforth be applied as a serviceable instrument. Each species builds up its stock of useful habits by selecting among, and taking advantage of, the innumerable useless actions which a living being performs out of sheer exuberance.”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset“The things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”
David Copperfield • Charles Dickens