"To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors."

-- Al Oerter

#Exercise Quotes #Doors Quotes #Training Quotes

“The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.”
“He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.”
“The concept of intuition is more often used in philosophical theorizing than is the concept of observation in scientific theorizing (proportionately). One reason is that there is (proportionately) more ostensible conflict of philosophical intuitions than there is ostensible conflict of scientific observations. So much for the use of a concept of intuition in philosophical theorizing.”
“I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!”
“A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.”
“Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.”
“All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.”
“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”

Source : Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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