
“The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.”
Source: The Outsider (1956), p. 139
No. 63.
Aphorisms (1930)
“The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.”
Source: The Outsider (1956), p. 139
“Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it”
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Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html
Referenced
“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.”
Tu Fu: Poems (p. 91)
Classics Revisited (1968)
“As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.”
Variant translation: When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Book Four, Chapter VIII
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Four
Values for Survival (1946)
“When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.”
Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 34
“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”
“Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.”
Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)