Rainer Maria Rilke — Quote from The Book of Hours
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
The Book of Hours (1905)
Concepts: meaning, mortality, authenticity
Resonant Quotes
- “The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the ver...” — Erich Fromm, Man for Himself Rilke's embrace of all experience, including terror and impermanence, perfectly embodies Fromm's thesis that acceptin...
- “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Both advocate for radical acceptance of life's tumultuous contradictions as the necessary condition for creative tran...
- “What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your lonelies...” — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science Both philosophers advocate for radical acceptance of existence's totality, with Nietzsche's eternal recurrence findin...
- “My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothin...” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo Both thinkers articulate nearly identical philosophies of radical acceptance, with Nietzsche's amor fati and Rilke's ...
- “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus, Return to Tipasa Both authors counsel radical acceptance of life's extremes while maintaining inner resilience, with Camus's 'invincib...
- “Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ah...” — Rollo May, The Courage to Create Both quotes articulate the same fundamental insight about human resilience—that authentic living requires moving thro...
- “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Ju...” — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Rilke's radical acceptance and endurance through all experience offers a poetic answer to Camus's fundamental questio...
- “The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One m...” — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Both advocate radical acceptance of existence's totality as the path to fulfillment—Camus through embracing futile st...