Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
From Eric Hoffer
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
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