A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Miguel De UnamunoRead
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
Interpretation
Pursuing seemingly impossible goals can lead to remarkable achievements.
This quote by Miguel De Unamuno emphasizes the value of daring to pursue what appears absurd or unattainable. It suggests that those who are willing to take bold risks and challenge conventional limits are often the ones who ultimately succeed in achieving extraordinary outcomes.
In practice
A motivational speaker could use this quote to inspire an audience to pursue their dreams.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.
The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
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