"Man actually needs the striving and struggling..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell
Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
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“People forget facts, but they remember stories.”
“Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.”
“The insecure way is the secure way.”
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“A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.”
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
“O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?”
More on Ambition
“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition”
“Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”
“It is fast approaching the point where I don't want tAdenauer to want the job.”