Sublime
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The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.
Bertrand Russell • In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.
Robert M. Pirsig • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
No random actions, none not based on underlying principles.
Aurelius, Marcus • Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)
Zen is, of course, a continuation of the old dhyana yoga, in which one just sits silently and allows one’s thoughts to go away by their own dead weight.
Robert M. Pirsig • On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
“The modern man is always claiming a self-sufficiency which he is unable to achieve. He constantly compares himself with other people and, afraid that they might be superior, he secretly copies their manners and borrows their desires.”
Leo Nasskau • René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race
‘Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.’”