The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered. Like a train into which one jumps without thinking, and without asking oneself where it is going. The Counterfeiters
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” 1984
How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago! Book VII
Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which … can be called “public” or “popular” opinion. What is Philosophy?
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