I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum.
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I am the Thing. Existence, liberated, released, surges over me. I exist.
You should make great things, not promising great things.
The more clearly you become conscious of the frailty, vanity and dream-like quality of all things, the more clearly will you also become conscious of the eternity of your own inner being; because it is only in contrast to this that the aforesaid quality of things becomes evident, just as you perceive the speed at which a ship is going only when looking at the motionless shore, not when looking into the ship itself.
As Epictetus says, men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.
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Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it’s caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.