Quotes About Decision

Pengetahuan tidak hanya terdiri atas mengenai apa yang harus dan dapat kita lakukan, tetapi juga tahu apa yang mungkin tidak usah dilakukan (Kata Willian dalam The Name of the Rose)

Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one—had you had the Opportunity? I

Empirical objects become signs (or they are looked at as signs) only from the point of view of a philosophical decision.

You have to seize Opportunity instinctively, without knowing at the time that it is the Opportunity. Is

para no acabar haciendo el necio, prefiero no empezar haciendo el listo.

Aut semel aut iterum medium generaliter esto

Åžeytanla yap?lan anlaÅŸmalar?n güzel yan?, insan?n onlar? kiminle iÅŸ yapt???n? bile bile imzalamas?d?r. Yoksa Cehennem'le öldürülmenin nedeni nedir?

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing—you can always repent, atone—but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing. I

I concluded that although instruments, whether empirical or conjectural, exist to prove that some object is false, every decision in the matter presupposes the existence of an original, authentic and true, to which the fake is compared. The truly genuine problem thus does not consist of proving something false but in proving that the authentic object is authentic.

Dov'è che due treni che s'incrociano non ripartono entrambi dopo essere arrivati?

There comes a time when one has to make up one's mind and choose which side one is on. The catoptric universe is a reality which can give the impression of virtuality, whereas the semiotic universe is a virtuality which can give the impression of reality.

La tragedia del suicida consiste en que nada más saltar por la ventana, entre el séptimo y el sexto piso, se arrepiente: «¡Oh, si pudiese volver atrás!»

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing—you can always repent, atone—but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

They had the keenest realization of danger to the cause of freedom and social justice. They all wanted to do something; but first they had to agree what to do, and apparently they couldn't; they talked and argued until they were exhausted.

Which is better, to vote for what you want and can't get, or to vote for what you don't want and get it?

One man decides, and the rest obey.

We should have known from the first day that the country wasn't for us, and we should have taken our courage in both hands and gone back home.

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. David Russell

She didn't intend her career to hit the buffers just because she'd made the mistake of opting for a force run by Neanderthals.

There is one right even more important than the right to send men to their deaths without thinking: the right to think twice before you send men to their death.

The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable.

Dinah and I were raised to believe money taints ordinary people, obstructs virtue, and makes a fool out of you. So, the inheritance was like a tiger somebody'd left on the doorstep of my house, and I had to figure out something to do with it. Having never seen a tiger up close, I perceived it as strange, frightful, and yet it pricked my curiosity enough to warrant a peek at its big body. But what to do with it?

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you become the plaything to circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity...

Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.