“After nearly three years on the 'move', being on the run, he feels that unreasonable temper, that jealousy, that self-conceit, that lack of confidence, that stutter, that fear, that hanging back, that hiding one's head in the sand, that bending to society, to impress others when it's not necessary, malaise when he can face them. Difficulties to me, the high pressure, the tension, the nakedness of the world, the empty, emotionless fear we live in. Yes, the harshness of it.” LifeWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick
“Nevertheless, then he can become a good man. I sometimes think it is necessary to hide away from it all, bury oneself in solitary, surround oneself, go hunting, fishing and walking. Breathe the fresh air. But then, running from it all, not facing up to one's responsibilities, or is one fast getting the hell out of the crappy world?” LifeWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“Maybe those who shout the loudest are the ones who envy one the most.” LifePhilosophyWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“Could one carve out this ideal [solitary] life without responsibility? Would not one long for company, for music and dancing? For discussion? Would one long for sex, women, for variation, for laughter? That world could prove to be too difficult. I think the bitter reality is that one would long for other people, however hard this is to take.” LifePhilosophyWisdomTruthSolitudeReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“Things that revolt me most are here. These are the mirrors of my thoughts. The things I curse most are the things I hate within myself. I can have the friends I want. I won’t deceive. I know it will be necessary to be pleasant to people I don’t like. Do things I don’t want to.” LifePhilosophyWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“One can work better to do things in comfort and for comfort. Need money, and for money, one has to work. So farming appeals to the independent mind. One is at least self-employed.” LifePhilosophyWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationAttributed No SourceFarming Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“Ultimately, I shall write the morals for myself. I am only concerned with living a moral life, but my morality, just now, is ineffectual. I don't have the strength to put it into action, but I must get this strength from within myself. From nowhere else does self-integrity come.” LifePhilosophyWisdomTruthMoralityReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“Under this heading of 'strength' is a rot which eats slowly within a man's soul. It must be rooted out in its entirety. Then, I can truly discuss philosophy with others, and until then, any further discussion of philosophy is hypothetical, stolen on self-condemnation; the strength of any particular philosophy lies in the power of the philosopher.” LifePhilosophyWisdomTruthLife LessonsReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“It is why it gets so heated and blocks my ears in philosophical arguments, becomes too often the block, won't draw an argument, or quietly compute because then that argument will either be right, in which it is good, or else wrong, in which case it won't matter because I will appreciate it even more.” LifePhilosophyWisdomTruthLife LessonsReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“Writing here, I realise how much I must learn and how hard it will be to regain my moral integrity. It's not hard to begin. I think of every conscious addition that goes into pulling something back.” LifeWisdomTruthLife LessonsMoralityReflectionContemplationAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963