Poetry
I had my existence. I was there.
Me in place and the place in me.
Me in place and the place in me.
I had my existence. I was there. Me in place and the place in me.
Seamus Heaney
I cannot bend the happenings of the world to my will: I am completely powerless.
I can only make myself independent of the world – and so in a certain sense master it – by renouncing any influence on happenings
Wittgenstein
Winning does not tempt that man.
This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively
By constantly greater beings.
Marx and Engels on having more but being less
The Zhuangzi:
When the workman has enough to do, he stops. If he does not stop, he will be wearied.
When he has enough to use, he puts it away. If he does not put it away, he will be harmed.
When there is enough, stopping is fitting; to go on beyond this is confusion.
On Litanies
In the midst of so much philosophy, humanity, and polite-ness, and so many sublime maxims, we have nothing to show for ourselves but a deceitful and frivolous exterior, honour without virtue, reason without wisdom, and pleasure without happiness.
Rousseau