Source: Sphinx's Princess
“For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.”
“Unconditional love: childhood’s greatest magic.”
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 1 (p. 35)
Sec. 283; Variant translation: For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously.
The Gay Science (1882)
Context: For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
"The Power of One", Time Magazine (26 August 2002)
“the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.”
Source: Fool's Fate
“The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.”
Le plus grand danger de la bombe est dans l'explosion de bêtise qu'elle provoque.
Pour Jean Grave, Le Journal (19 Feb 1894)
“The greatest enemy to fear is truth.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 101
It has no technique and therefore no authority. When you learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy — if you are aware of all that in yourself, without any choice, that is part of meditation.
1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
