We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (. . . ), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptableappropriaterecommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.
This is the world of One Taste, with no inside and no outside, no subject and no object, no in here versus out there, without means, without path and without goal. And this, as Ramana said, is the final truth.
I do not teach. I relate.