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“And when you see a man who is repining at the approach of death, is not his reluctance a sufficient proof that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same time a lover of either money or power, or both?”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde““Do you think people can tell who they are just by their names? You can recognize them from their looks, their gait, their looks, their tone of voice.””
Samarkand • Amin Maalouf“The measure of a person's disposition is this: ... how great is the distance between his understanding and his actions. Basically we all understand the highest. A child, the simplest person, and the wisest all understand the highest. ... But what makes the difference is whether we understand it at a distance—so that we do not act accordingly, or close at hand—so that we act accordingly and "cannot do otherwise."”
Works of Love • Soren Kierkegaard