“Close up, the person's imperfections matter, but from far away, you see your own.”
Quotes to Stay Determined · Page 85
Fierce words to fuel your drive and remind you nothing can stop you.
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“People pay for what they do, and, still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become.”
“Every atheist is an idolater — unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect.”
“Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science.”
“Prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power.”
“What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.”
“A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror.”
“If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error.”
“Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.”
“A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.”
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.”
“We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.”
“It is not in a person's nature to desire what he already has.”
“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”
“Men are unequal in all their relations with the things of this world, without exception.”
“The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.”
“And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.”