“What's the most important thing in the world? Walking the walk.”
What Would Jack Do?
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>What chieftain, walking by himself, crying
Most miserable, most victorious,Does not see these separate figures one by one,
And yet see only one, in his old coat,
His slouching pantaloons, beyond the town,Looking for what was, where it used to be?</p
“What's the most important thing in the world? Walking the walk.”
What Would Jack Do?
“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
“Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.”
“Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.”
Aphorism 102
Les Caractères (1688), De l'Homme
As quoted in Learned Hand : The Man and the Judge (1994) by Gerald Gunther.
Extra-judicial writings