Strength of character

“What I have said once, that I will do,” – this mode of thinking is considered to show strength of character. How many actions are accomplished, not because they have been selected as the most rational, but because they, when they occurred in our minds, in some way or other tickled our ambition and vanity so that we persist in them and rashly accomplish them. Thus they strengthen in us the belief in our character and our safe conscience, hence, generally speaking, in our strength: whilst the choice of the most rational acts maintains scepticism against us and a sense of weakness in us.

The dawn of day by Friedrich Nietzsche 

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There is a familiar state of mind which comes over a man after a…

There is a familiar state of mind which comes over a man after a dinner, and, acting with greater force than all the dictates of mere reason, compels him to be satisfied with himself and to consider all men his friends.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 

When an apple is ripe and falls, what makes it…

When an apple is ripe and falls, what makes it fall ? Is it the attraction of gravitation ? or is it because its stem withers ? or because the sun dries it up ?  or  because it is heavy ? or because the wind shakes it ? or because the small boy standing underneath is hungry for it ? There is no such proximate cause.The whole thing is the result of all those conditions, in accordance with which every vital, organic, complex event occurs.And the botanist who argues that the apple fell from the effect of decomposing vegetable tissue, or the like, is just as much in the right as the boy who, standing below, declares that the apple fell because he wanted to eat it, and prayed for it.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 

The king is the …

The king is the slave of history.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 

Man consciously lives for himself; but, at the same time, he serves as an unconscious instrument for the …

Man consciously lives for himself; but, at the same time, he serves as an unconscious instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends. An action once accomplished is fixed; and when a man`s activity coincides with others, with the millions of actions of other men, it acquires historical significance. The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the more men he is connected with, the greater the influence he exerts over others, the more evident is the predestined and unavoidable necessity of his every action. 

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 

The Egyptians used to believe that our souls once inhabited the …

The Egyptians used to believe that our souls once inhabited the bodies of animals, and will go into animals again.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 

Let us learn to show our friendship for a …

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is no confusion like…

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald