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“You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.”

“To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.”

Should Important Life Is Goal Ambition Lunch Ladders Playgrounds

Book:Mystery at Geneva

Source: Mystery at Geneva

“The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.”

Universe Causes Goal Impossible Infinite Finals Philosopher Endless Useless Climbing Backwards Ladders Attainment Rendering Recurring Climbing Up

Book:Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon

Source: Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon

“With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.”

Trying Looks Lasts Goal Numbers Steps Ought Negative Philosophical Regard Climbs Metaphysics Backwards Ladders

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two