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“Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”
Man's Search For Meaning • Viktor E Frankl“It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes , which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble as it pleases. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us, and even if we dream, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost a matter of impossibility to separate the two.”
Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens“I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.”
Psychology of the Unconscious • Carl Gustav Jung“"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius