Misattributed quotes

View Quote Your action, and your action alone, determines your worth. Johann Gottlieb Fichte in The Vocation of Man [Die Bestimmung des Menschen] (1800), p. 94 : "You are here, not for idle contemplation of yourself, not for brooding over devout sensations — no, for action you are here; action, and action alone, determines your worth."

View Quote Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. Simone Weil, in The Pre-War Notebook (1933-1939), published in First and Last Notebooks (1970) edited by Richard Rees