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“The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.”
Reflections on Literature and Morality • Andre Gide“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““To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.””
12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos • Jordan B. Peterson“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
Prometheus Misbound • Andre Gide“ No waves of native grain ever stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast of North America. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)