“Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct relationship (either of frustration or of fulfilment) to the inevitable flow of terrestrial motivation and events. That is - both schools retain in a vestigial way the primitive concept of a conscious teleology - of a cosmos which gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitos, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.” MenWayWantGivingSchoolFormMotivationEnergyTreeMankindDogEventsConsciousConceptsFlowDirectUltimateHorseAimOne WayInevitableWelfareDamnFrustrationCosmosPrimitiveRatsOptimistPessimistUnifiedFulfilmentIllogicalFungiLice Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.” BookNamesRecordsInfluenceEventsPoliticianAimSpellsHistory Books Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.” NeedsStillsFacesTurnsFireEventsMaterialsHigherCircumstancesAimObstaclesPursueFuelThrownInwardLampsConsumed Book:Meditations: A New Translation Source: Meditations: A New Translation
“It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.” HumanityIndividualForgetSituationEventsHappeningsShameAimHorribleCurseTolerateShamefulInfamy Author:Rudolf Virchow
“The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.” DoeFactsIndividualProcessKnownEventsUniqueAimPatternsLinksHistorianHypothetical Author:Susanne Katherina Langer