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““Look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision,—what will be his reply?””
Republic • Plato“My dreams are the problems of the day stepped up to absurdity, a little like men dancing, wearing the horns and masks of animals.”
The Winter of Our Discontent • John Steinbeck“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”
Moby Dick • Herman Melville“We are so focused on figuring out the best approach that we never get around to taking action.”
Atomic Habits • James Clear“A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.”
Thyestes • Lucius Annaeus Seneca