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December 29, 2007
you must exert yourself
'Give strength to my good resolutions' is a plea that could stand in the Lord's Prayer.
We are only too inclined to believe that if we possess a little talent work must come easily to us. You must exert yourself, man, if you want to do something great.
Like a great philosophical babbler he is concerned not so much with the truth as with the sound of his prose.
God created man in his own image, says the Bible; the philosophers do the exact opposite, they create God in theirs.
The oracles have not so much ceased to speak, rather men have ceased to listen to them.
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
George Lichtenberg
Posted by amin at December 29, 2007 1:21 AM