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“Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you think too modestly about yourself. Everything you do is destined to be of historic significance. One day, your letters, your decisions, will belong to all mankind, like those of Wagner and Brahms.”

Thinking Sometimes Feelings Decision Mankind Position Greatness Honor One Day Letters Historical Significance About Yourself Destined Historic Wagner Brahms

Book:A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935

Source: A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935

“Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Kind Mean Would Be Decision Responsibility Steps Mankind Ought Dignity Majority Surrender Experiments Shoulders Cowardice First Steps Retreat Drowning Floundering

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.”

Men Littles Lying Given Decision Conditions Mankind Paid Conquer Elsewhere Unjust Rise Above Grandeur Little Man

Book:Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947

Source: Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947

“It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.”

May Made Reason Done Care Literature Justice Decision Common Records Special Mankind Lawyer Maxims

Book:Gulliver's Travels

Source: Gulliver's Travels

“Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of our most fateful decisions are made unbeknownst to ourselves. Yet we insist that mankind can achieve what we cannot: conscious mastery of its existence. This is the creed of those who have given up an irrational belief in God for an irrational faith in mankind.”

Littles Made Self Dream Care Belief Given Decision Existence Our Lives Achieve Mankind Conscious Mastery Creeds Irrational Given Up Belief In God Irrational Beliefs

Author:John Gray