#line

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. ↗

— Max Gluckman

#beyond #discipline #fool #generation #genius

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#loneliness #friendship

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#loneliness #solitude #intelligence

Under a bad leadership Serbs are capable of committing the most terrible atrocities; under good leaders we can do great deeds. It's like a field - if it's not cared for, the weeds will take over. But if you tend it, water and feed the seeds, you will read a bountiful harvest. Serbs are lazy, we lack discipline and have no capacity for self-criticism." With Their Backs to the World ↗

— Åsne Seierstad

#leadership #self-criticism #serbs #leadership

One cannot lead well until one learns to follow well. ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

#leadership-characteristics #leadership-development #leading-vs-following #leadership

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#alchohol #drinking #drugs #loneliness #melancholy

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier. ↗

— Helen Keller

#duty #life

You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It's not normal. The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself. It's a loop and you gotta do something to get out of it. ↗

— Jim Shepard

#relationships #weirdness #life

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#opening-lines #life