The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use read more

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by
it, you have reason to rejoice.
[Lat., read more

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by
it, you have reason to rejoice.
[Lat., Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod
gaudias.]

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what read more

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.

The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for
it.

All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for
it.

Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes,
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will he read more

Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes,
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will he does, and does so much
That proof is called impossibility.

He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.

He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.