Undertaking Quotes

“I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.”

“Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility”

“For we must farm or die. In undertaking farming we undertake a responsibility covering the whole life cycle. We can break it or keep it whole. We have broken it, but there is yet time to mend it; perhaps only just time.”

“He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until death came. Darkness covered everything for him; but precisely because of this darkness he felt that his undertaking was the only guiding thread in this darkness, and he seized it and held on to it with all his remaining strength.”

“...[T]he whole undertaking of philosophical inquiry requires a prior understanding of the conceptual system in which the undertaking is set. That is an empirical job for cognitive science and cognitive semantics. ... Unless this job is done, we will not know whether the answers philosophers give to their questions are a function of the conceptualization built into the questions themselves.”

“Carry on an undefiled undertaking.”

“Thinking, it seems, is a difficult undertaking RjS”

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”

“The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.”

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”