
“Everyone performs bad actions… A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“Everyone performs bad actions… A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“A wise person is one who sees the effect of an action before he acts.”
Source: Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass, 1986, p.41
“The one primary and fundamental law of mental action consists in a tendency to generalisation.”
The Architecture of Theories (1891)
Context: The one primary and fundamental law of mental action consists in a tendency to generalisation. Feeling tends to spread; connections between feelings awaken feelings; neighboring feelings become assimilated; ideas are apt to reproduce themselves. These are so many formulations of the one law of the growth of mind. When a disturbance of feeling takes place, we have a consciousness of gain, the gain of experience; and a new disturbance will be apt to assimilate itself to the one that preceded it. Feelings, by being excited, become more easily excited, especially in the ways in which they have previously been excited. The consciousness of such a habit constitutes a general conception.
The cloudiness of psychological notions may be corrected by connecting them with physiological conceptions. Feeling may be supposed to exist, wherever a nerve-cell is in an excited condition. The disturbance of feeling, or sense of reaction, accompanies the transmission of disturbance between nerve-cells or from a nerve-cell to a muscle-cell or the external stimulation of a nerve-cell. General conceptions arise upon the formation of habits in the nerve-matter, which are molecular changes consequent upon its activity and probably connected with its nutrition.
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
Maxim 598, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
“The only cure for grief is action.”
Source: The Spanish Drama (1846), Ch. 2