#philosophy #rationality # Edited 2021-12-01 - 19:54 # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Will >We must banish the dark impression of that nothingness which we discern behind all virtue and holiness as their final goal, and which we fear as children fear the dark; we must not even evade it like the Indians, through myths and meaningless words, such as reabsorption in Brahma or the Nirvana of the Buddhists. Rather do we freely acknowledge that what remains after the entire abolition of **will** is for all those who are still full of **will** certainly nothing; but, conversely, to those in whom the **will** has turned and has denied itself, this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways-is nothing. ~ [[Schopenhauer]] >Mixing thought with definiteness of purpose. — I begin to appreciate now the old saying “he can because he thinks he can.” I believe that anybody can think himself into his goal if he mixes thought with definiteness of purpose, persistence; and a burning desire for its translation into reality. >~ [[Bruce Lee]]