Things Civilization Runs On Without Naming

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is a map inside out, just as troubles are opportunities inside out.

Obstacles are maps inside out. Troubles are opportunities inside out. Failures are lessons inside out. Burdens are blessings inside out.

is a reminder that the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve. Bertolt Brecht

is necessary for greatness, as 'all that is great stands in the storm'.

[All that is great stands in the storm . . . ] (Plato, Republic, 497 d. 9). (Heidegger 1933 : )

is never impossible to overcome. There are just stronger and weaker wills, that's all!.

There are no impossible obstacles... there are just stronger and weaker wills, that's all! Jules Verne

 may later be seen as a means to action. This idea ultimately derives from the idea that man builds himself out of his possibilities, his needs -his ensemble of values.

To be sure, in a given state of civilization and culture, the possibilities are not unlimited. But the fact of considering as an obstacle something that may later be seen as a means to action ultimately derives from the idea, the representation, that man (collective man, of course) builds himself out of his possibilities, his needs. In short, it results from what he represents to himself as desirable, which is inseparable from the ensemble ofvalues.27 (Canguilhem 'knowledge of life' : 108)

is better when it is more difficult, for only when sufficiently difficult obstacles stand in our way can we gather enough energy to overcome them.

Arnold toynbee describes the growth of civilization in terms of challenge and response. One would have thought that one's capacities would develop if unrestrained by external agents. The opposite is in fact the case. Only when sufficiently difficult obstacles stand in our way can we gather enough energy to overcome them. '---The mind of J Krishnamurti

is better the more difficult it is, for the greater it is, the more glory in overcoming it. What does not destroy makes me stronger.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. What does not destroy makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche

is that which, in the experience of overcoming is the full delight of existence.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. Arthur Schopenhauer

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