„What he himself is, whether he is or is not, he does not know so much as this.“
Ipse qui sit, utrum sit an non sit, id quoque nescit.
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
XVII, line 22
Carmina
„What I am saying is that it is not so much what man is that counts as it is what he ventures to make of himself. To make the leap he must do more than disclose himself; he must risk a certain amount of confusion. Then, as soon as he does catch a glimpse of a different kind of life, he needs to find some way of overcoming the paralyzing moment of threat, for this is the instant when he wonders who he really is - whether he is what he just was or is what he is about to be. Adam must have experienced such a moment.“
Variante: What I am saying is that it is not so much what man is that counts as it is what he ventures to make of himself. To make the leap he must do more than disclose himself; he must risk a certain amount of confusion. Then, as soon as he does catch a glimpse of a different kind of life, he needs to find some way of overcoming the paralyzing moment of threat, for this is the instant when he wonders who he really is - whether he is what he just was or is what he is about to be. Adam must have experienced such a moment.
Origine: The Language of Hypothesis, 1964, p. 158
George Kelly1
psicologo, matematico e pedagogista statunitense 1905 - 1967Citazioni simili
— José Ortega Y Gasset Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist 1883 - 1955
As quoted in Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, p. 155
History as a System (1962)
— Carlos Castaneda, libro The Wheel of Time
Origine: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)
— Abraham Maslow, libro Motivation and Personality
Origine: Motivation and Personality (1954), p. 93.
Contesto: A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization. This term, first coined by Kurt Goldstein, is being used in this paper in a much more specific and limited fashion. It refers to the desire for self-fulfillment, namely, to the tendency for him to become actualized in what he is potentially. This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
Orthodoxy (1884)
Contesto: How do they answer all this? They say that God “permits” it. What would you say to me if I stood by and saw a ruffian beat out the brains of a child, when I had full and perfect power to prevent it? You would say truthfully that I was as bad as the murderer. Is it possible for this God to prevent it? Then, if he does not he is a fiend; he is no god. But they say he “permits” it. What for? So that we may have freedom of choice. What for? So that God may find, I suppose, who are good and who are bad. Did he not know that when he made us? Did he not know exactly just what he was making?
— Henri de Saint-Simon French early socialist theorist 1760 - 1825
Le philosophe se place au sommet de la pensée; de là il envisage ce qu'a été le monde et ce qu'il doit devenir. Il n'est pas seulement observateur, il est acteur; il est acteur du premier genre dans le monde moral, car ce sont ses opinions sur, car ce sont ses opinions sur ce que le monde doit devenir qui règlent la société humaine.
Science de l'homme: Physiologie religieuse (1858), p. 437
— Otto Weininger austrian philosopher and writer 1880 - 1903
Collected Aphorisms
Contesto: Most of the time man does not do what he wills, but what he has willed. Through his decisions, he always gives himself only a certain direction, in which he then moves until the next moment of reflection. We do not will continuously, we only will intermittently, piece by piece. We thus save ourselves from willing: principle of the economy of the will. But the higher man always experiences this as thoroughly immoral.
„He thought about that for a moment, wondered what he should say. The truth or nothing. The truth.“
— Octavia E. Butler, libro Adulthood Rites
Part IV “Home” chapter 5 (p. 501)
Adulthood Rites (1988)
„I tell myself he's better than he makes himself out to be, but, Tessa, what if he isn't?“
— Cassandra Clare, libro Clockwork Prince
Origine: Clockwork Prince
— Alexander Graham Bell scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone 1847 - 1922
Bell Telephone Talk (1901)
— Van Morrison Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician 1945
A New Kind of Man
Song lyrics, A Sense of Wonder (1985)
— Norman Cousins American journalist 1915 - 1990
Quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter.
— John Perry Barlow American poet and essayist 1947 - 2018
Planet JH Weekly interview (2005)
Contesto: I wasn't tempted to vote for Bush, but I understand why people did… because he obviously had integrity. It was a terrible kind of integrity, but he does what he says and he means what he says. And what he says is terrible and what he does is terrible, but he's consistent. So I think a lot of people in Wyoming who care so much about integrity that they're willing to choose somebody that has a monstrous willingness to do any damn thing as long as he's up front about it — but that's not really quite enough for me. I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I'm an Alan Simpson Republican.
— James Burgh, libro Political Disquisitions
ch III: A Militia, with Navy
Political Disquisitions (1774)
— Max Ernst German painter, sculptor and graphic artist 1891 - 1976
Quote from 'Max Ernst', exhibition catalogue, Galerie Stangl, Munich, 1967, U.S., pp.6-7, as cited in Edward Quinn, Max Ernst. 1984, Poligrafa, Barcelona. p. 12
1951 - 1976
