"They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." The Analects of Confucius
Two worlds coincided there, day and night issued from two poles. Demian
Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one another; for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life. Book VII
To ordain the future in advance in this way, man must first have learned to distinguish necessary events from chance ones, to think causally, to see and anticipate distant eventualities as if they belonged to the present, to decide with certainty what is the goal and what the means to it, and in general be able to calculate and compute. Genealogy of Morals
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