“The desire to have precise ideas often leads to doing nothing.”

Original: Les idées précises conduisent souvent à ne rien faire. — Excessive insistence on certainty can become an excuse for avoiding action. · Mélange (French)

• Action
• Ideas
• Perfection

“I am becoming terribly myself, perhaps in reaction against everything that increasingly forces me to be someone else.”

Original: Je deviens terriblement moi-même. Peut-être par réaction contre tout ce qui me contraint de plus en plus à être un autre. — Individuality can emerge as a resistance to social pressure and imposed identities. · Cahiers (French)

• Freedom
• Identity
• Individuality

“Man must develop the faculties of his mind as a virtuoso practises his scales.”

Original: L'homme doit développer les facultés de son esprit comme un virtuose fait ses gammes. — Mental ability is presented as something that requires continual practice rather than passive possession. · Cahiers (French)

• Learning
• Mind
• Practice