„Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
„Rather I prize the doubt
Low kinds exist without,
Finished and finite clods, untroubled by a spark.“
— Robert Browning, Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Context: Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all!
Not for such hopes and fears
Annulling youth's brief years,
Do I remonstrate: folly wide the mark!
Rather I prize the doubt
Low kinds exist without,
Finished and finite clods, untroubled by a spark.
Poor vaunt of life indeed,
Were man but formed to feed
On joy, to solely seek and find and feast;
Such feasting ended, then
As sure an end to men.
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„So hopeless is the world without;
The world within I doubly prize;
Thy world, where guile, and hate, and doubt,
And cold suspicion never rise;
Where thou, and I, and Liberty,
Have undisputed sovereignty.“
— Emily Brontë English novelist and poet 1818 - 1848
To Imagination (1846)
„I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.“
— Linus Torvalds Finnish-American software engineer and hacker 1969
Attributed, Source: Desktop_architects list, 2007.8.3 https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2007-August/002446.html
„The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false.“
— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969
The Everything and the Nothing (1963), Context: The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false.
The Original Whim in the Beyond caused the apparent descent of the Infinite into the realm of the seeming finite. This is the Divine Mystery and Divine Game in which Infinite Consciousness for ever plays on all levels of finite consciousness.
43 : Toys in the Divine Game, p. 70.
„Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can’t stand us, and people who absolutely can’t live without us. I’d rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.“
— Ben Gibbard American singer, songwriter and guitarist 1976
The Meaning Of Life, III
„I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.“
— Robert Browning English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812 - 1889
„A spark without its fire, a drop without its sea,
Without rebirth what more, pray, wouldst thou be?“
— Angelus Silesius German writer 1624 - 1677
The Cherubinic Wanderer
„Granted the existence of a certain kind of molecular motion, what is it that determines its direction along one path rather than another?“
— William Crookes British chemist and physicist 1832 - 1919
Address to the Society for Psychical Research (1897), Context: The production of motion, molar or molecular, is governed by physical laws, which it is the business of the philosopher to find out and correlate. The law of the conservation of energy overrides all laws, and it is a preeminent canon of scientific belief that for every act done a corresponding expenditure of energy must be transformed.
No work can be effected without using up a corresponding value in energy of another kind. But to us the other side of the problem is even of more importance. Granted the existence of a certain kind of molecular motion, what is it that determines its direction along one path rather than another?
„"Oh, I cannot abide these complacent clods," I exclaim. "I cannot relate to these opulent oafs who are laughing in the streets. They are not high enough or low enough. For my love I must find the poor, the deprived, the fornicators, the addicts, the drunkards, the unwashed,…"
"Oh, these are the poor," the clod told me. "This is the poorest street in town, Index Y-Z. It's hard to tell them apart now except that the poor spend more ostentatiously than the rich do."“
— R. A. Lafferty American writer 1914 - 2002
Arrive at Easterwine (1971), Ch. 6
„"Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards".“
— Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet and Russian film-maker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director 1932 - 1986
Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 239
„The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.“
— Robert Hughes Australian critic, historian, writer 1938 - 2012
Time Magazine (1996), "Modernism's Patriarch (Cezanne)", Time Magazine, June 10, 1996
„I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.“
— Jack London American author, journalist, and social activist 1876 - 1916
The Bulletin, San Francisco, California, December 2, 1916, part 2, p. 1.
Also included in Jack London’s Tales of Adventure, ed. Irving Shepard, Introduction, p. vii (1956)
„A Conquest, without facing dangers is as dull as Victory without a shining glory. A game without a prize!“
— Chinmayananda Saraswati Indian spiritual teacher 1916 - 1993
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
„Marketing is a race without a finishing line“
— Philip Kotler, Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know
