„For the moment being, given that we live in society, the only duty of superior men is to reduce to a minimum their participation in the tribe’s life. Not to read newspapers, or read them only to know about whatever unimportant and curious is going on.[…] The supreme honorable state for a superior man is in not knowing who is the Head of State of his country, or if he lives under a monarchy or a republic.All his attitude must be setting his soul so that the passing of things, of events doesn’t bother him. If he doesn’t do it he will have to take an interest in others in order to take care of himself.“

— Fernando Pessoa

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„Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing.“
— Neale Donald Walsch
„Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.“
— Ayn Rand
„There is one thing no head of a country can know, and that is: how good is his intelligence system? He finds out only by having it fail him.“
— Robert A. Heinlein