Don’t let other people belittle your ambitions. Only small people do that. Truly great people make you feel that you, too, can also become great.
Why is it always the gentle ones, who pay for everybody else’s ambitions?
TV: Farscape
What if intellectual ambitions were only the imaginary inversion of the failure of temporal ambitions.
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.