Simple isn't always easy.

“My humanity is a continual self-overcoming.” #nietzsche

On the subatomic level the universe of separate objects is a complete illusion.

“We are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.”

“Sometimes you don’t see eye to eye even with the person you revere above all others.”

“Among Beasts only the Lion pardons his suppliants.” -Pliny the Elder

Meet your fears with faith 🤝

“Have a sane estimate of your capabilities” Romans 12:3

“What was vital was overlaid and hidden by what was irrelevant.” #sherlockholmes

He preferred the life of a feral philosopher

“He suffered but did not compound his suffering by wishing life were otherwise.”

“The whole meaning of the terrible physical suffering to which I was exposed lies in the fact that, thanks to it alone, I was torn away from an estimate of my life-task which was not only false but a hundred times too low.”

Speed is relative. Without reference points, it’s meaningless.

No longer seeking praise, they were free to doubt their own work and thus, “go beyond themselves.”

“The capacity to give one’s attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.” #Weil #philosophy

“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.” #epicurus

“It is better for you to lie upon a bed of straw and be free of fear, than to have a golden couch and an opulent table, yet be troubled in mind.” -Epicurus

“Live in obscurity.” -Epicurus

Attentive yet not reactive

“We must look for a long time before we can see.” -Thoreau