Dutch East India Company Quotes

#1. Perhaps I myself am a pompous and conceited old fool. And perhaps if these fools I complain of were French or Dutch or German I would not mind so much, because then I could say 'What else can you expect?' and feel superior. It is because they are men of my own race that I would have them all good.

M.M. Kaye

#2. Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

C.S. Lewis

#3. No one is better than anyone else. Some just simply don't fulfil their potential of being the best they possibly can.

S.A. Tawks

#4. Only a shallow mind would be puzzled by the fact that Original Sin appears to be distributed so much more noticeably among the deprived ... than among merchant bankers living in Surrey's green belt.

William Donaldson

#5. Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Terence McKenna

#6. If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

Saadi

#7. We were peering into this darkness, crisscrossed with voices, when the change took place: the only real, great change I've ever happened to witness, and compared to it the rest is nothing

Italo Calvino

#8. Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. Our lives were now worlds apart, separated by time, circumstance, and the unbridgeable chasm of money.

Travis Luedke