Discipline is remembering what you want.
"A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others."
| Confucius
"There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others."
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince
"If we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
La Rochefoucauld
Maximes
I believe with Jung that each of us is “modern man in search of a soul.” — James Hillman
"Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure."
Virginia Woolf
The Death of the Moth
"Man is only what he becomes — profound truth, but he becomes only what he is — truth still more profound."
Amiel
"All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness."
Carl Jung
Civilization in transition“Seen from the viewpoint of politics, truth has a despotic character. It is therefore hated by tyrants, who rightly fear the competition of a coercive force they cannot monopolize..."
— Hannah Arendt
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
"With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh."
J. W. von Goethe
“At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously…that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” Keats
“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.”
— John Keats
Have more than you show, Speak less than you know. - Shakespeare
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