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Synopsis. Achilles, the most formidable warrior of the age, shown here with the fatal arrow wound he suffered during the siege of Troy. Weil introduces the central theme of her essay in the first three sentences: The true hero, the true subject, the centre of the Iliad, is force. Force employed by man, force that enslaves man, force before ...
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (German: Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch für freie Geister) is a book by 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1878. A second part, Assorted Opinions and Maxims (Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche), was published in 1879, and a third part, The Wanderer and ...
Robert Kiefner Greenleaf[1] (1904–1990) was the founder of the modern servant leadership movement and the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. Greenleaf was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1904. After graduating from Carleton College in Minnesota, he went to work for AT&T, then the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
To keep your balance, you must keep moving." – Albert Einstein. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." – Anais Nin. "You do not find the happy life. You make it ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay called for staunch individualism. "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.It contains the most thorough statement of one of his recurrent themes: the need for each person to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.
Short Quotes. “Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.”. — F. Scott Fitzgerald. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And ...
The eighteenth century may have called for liberation from all the ties which grew up historically in politics, in religion, in morality and in economics in order to permit the original natural virtue of man, which is equal in everyone, to develop without inhibition; the nineteenth century may have sought to promote, in addition to man's ...
“Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t ‘should’ve’ done something.” ― Steve Maraboli, "Unapologetically You ...