#naivete

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#enemy #false-friends #friends #friendship #friendship-quotes

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#inexperience #krakauer #mccandless #naivete #youth

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#aesthetic #beautiful #defined #degenerate #domain

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#even #even now #extraordinary #guilty #i