"Just as a waterfall grows slower and..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
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“Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.”
“A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.”
“One has to know the size of one's stomach.”
More on Action
“Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.”
“With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.”
“If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.”
More on Calmness
“The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.”
“Stillness is the ruler of haste.”
“Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.”