Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 13
Source: The Way Towards The Blessed Life or the Doctrine of Religion 1806, P. 17
“Miranda is aware of how pretentious this sounds, but is it still pretentious if it’s true?”
Source: Station Eleven (2014), Chapter 15 (p. 95)
“He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.”
Quien me tiene de un hilo no es fuerte; lo fuerte es el hilo.
Voces (1943)
On Freedom (1958)
Context: The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse — to challenge others to form free opinions.
“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
“Life is a thread that someone entangled.”
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A vida é um novelo que alguém emaranhou.
