Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Deep thoughts

"Attempting to change the world through external effort is like a man, who by breaking a mirror, thinks he is changing his face."

I came across this thought-provoking quote recently.

1 comment:

Ian Paredes said...

"In historical events great men—so-called—are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity." ~ Leo Tolstoy, "War and Peace"

a quote that supplements your quote.