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“ How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how hard it is in life!”
Seagull • Anton Chekhov““The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.””
Animal Farm • George Orwell“First principle: one must need strength, otherwise one will never have it.”
Twilight of the Idols • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of Society is not natural to mankind. It cuts against the grain. A boy would like to follow his father in pursuit of food or prey. He would like to be doing serviceable things so far as his utmost strength allowed. He would like to be earning wages however small to help to keep up the home. He would like to have some leisure of his own to use or misuse as he pleased. He would ask little more than the right to work or starve. And then perhaps in the evenings a real love of learning would come to those who are worthy – and why try to stuff in those who are not? – and knowledge and thought would open the ‘magic casements’ of the mind.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill“No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity.”
Sweet Thursday • John Steinbeck