You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Atomic Habits
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. Maxim for Revolutionists
We are all convention; convention carries us away, and we neglect the substance of things. . . . We dare not call our parts by their right names, but are not afraid to use them for every sort of debauchery. Essays
I had already experienced plenty of loneliness. Now I sensed that even deeper loneliness existed, and that it was inescapable. Demian
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