“The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.” HumansIdeasRealBeliefGrowingPersonalityHigherIdealsEternityAbsolutesRaisesDevelopingThirstSuperhumanCoherence Author:Christian Lous Lange
“Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.” SelfFacesIndividualExistenceSuccessfulConditionsPersonalityDeterminationUniversalAbsolutesIndividualitySupremeRealizationSelf DeterminationAffirmationAdaptationInnate Author:Carl Jung
“German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.” WritingLiteratureNamesEffortPersonalityConnectionsAbsolutesConstantStriveBoredomAccomplishedPopularityModeratesHarmoniousImmoralityPlatitudesVersatile Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.” MorningEventsPersonalityBirthFindingsAbsolutesOriginalsOneselfAwakeningProofUnprecedentedSaddlesFinding Oneself Book:Bend Sinister Source: Bend Sinister