“Consider how one silently reads the following sentence: ‘The forest ranger did not permit us to enter the reserve without a permit’. Note that on its first occurrence, the word ‘permit’ was (silently) pro-nounced with the stress on the second syllable (permit), hereas on its second occurrence the stress was on the first syllable (permit)… The syntactic and semantic analysis required to determine the appropriate meaning of the word ‘permit’ must have taken place prior to the allocation of the stress pattern; and this in turn, must have taken place prior to the phonemic image entering awareness.”

“The Leap”.
Great Days (1979)

Think and Grow Rich
Variant: Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

Book XI, ch. 4 (trans. Pevear and Volokhonsky)
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

Mahayana, Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, Chapter Eight. On Meat-eating

Prologue
Wallenstein (1798), Prologue - Wallensteins Lager (Wallenstein's Camp)

Source: Epigrams, p. 352

Card XI : Justice http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/sot/sot22.htm <br class="br">The Symbolism of the Tarot (1913) <br class="br">Context: When I possessed the keys, read the book and understood the symbols, I was permitted to lift the curtain of the Temple and enter. its inner sanctum. And there I beheld a Woman with a crown of gold and a purple mantle. She held a sword in one hand and scales in the other. I trembled with awe at her appearance, which was deep and mysterious, and drew me like an abyss.<br>&quot;You see Truth,&quot; said the voice. &quot;On these scales everything is weighed. This sword is always raised to guard justice, and nothing can escape it.&quot;<br>&quot;But why do you avert your eyes from the scales and the sword? They will remove the last illusions. How could you live on earth without these illusions?<br>&quot;You wished to see Truth and now you behold it! But remember what happens to the mortal who beholds a Goddess!&quot;