quotes
A collection of influential quotes I appreciate.
"Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone."
—Rudyard Kipling (1917)
While jostling against all manner of people it has been impressed upon my mind that the successful ones are those who have a natural faculty for solving puzzles. Life is full of puzzles, and we are called upon to solve such as fate throws our way.
—Sam Loyd, Jr. (1927)
The true voyage of discovery consists not of going to new places, but of having a new pair of eyes.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
We deliberate not about ends, but about means. For a doctor does not deliberate whether he shall heal, nor an orator whether he shall persuade . . . They assume the end and consider how and by what means it is attained, and if it seems easily and best produced thereby; while if it is achieved by other means, they consider how it will be achieved and by what means this will be achieved, until they come to the first cause . . . and what is last in the order of analysis seems to be first in the order of becoming.
—Aristotles, Nicomachean Ethics, Book III, 3, 1112b