Zizek Try Again Fail Again Fail Better

„Ever tried. Always failed. No matter. Try once again. Fail again. Fail better."

Worstward Ho (1983)
Контексте: All of old. Goose egg else ever. E'er tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try once more. Neglect once more. Fail better.

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„He failed to get Jesus, but he came over again, to get Jesus' church building."

— Upton Sinclair, книга The Profits of Religion

Book Seven : The Church of the Social Revolution, "Christ and Caesar"
The Profits of Religion (1918)
Контексте: In the most deeply pregnant of the legends concerning Jesus, nosotros are told how the devil took him up into a high mount and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time; and the devil said unto him: "All this power will I give unto thee, and the glory of them, for that is delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will, I give it. If thou, therefore, wilt worship me, all shall be thine." Jesus, as we know, answered and said "Go thee behind me, Satan!" And he actually meant it; he would have zip to do with worldly celebrity, with "temporal power;" he chose the career of a revolutionary anarchist, and died the expiry of a disturber of the peace. And for two or three centuries his church building followed in his footsteps, cherishing his proletarian gospel. The early Christians had "all things in mutual, except women;" they lived every bit social outcasts, hiding in deserted catacombs, and beingness thrown to lions and boiled in oil.
But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him. He failed to become Jesus, just he came once again, to go Jesus' church. He came when, through the power of the new revolutionary thought, the Church had won a position of tremendous power in the decomposable Roman Empire; and the subtle worm causeless the guise of no less a person than the Emperor himself, suggesting that he should become a convert to the new faith, and then that the Church and he might piece of work together for the greater glory of God. The bishops and fathers of the Church, ambitious for their organization, fell for this scheme, and Satan went off laughing to himself. He had got everything he had asked from Jesus three hundred years before; he had got the world'southward greatest religion.

„Information technology is difficult to fail, but it is worse never to take tried to succeed."

— Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life

1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), The Strenuous Life
Контексте: Information technology is hard to fail, only it is worse never to take tried to succeed. In this life nosotros become null salve by endeavour. Liberty from endeavor in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the by.
Контексте: A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs but from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. [... ] If you are rich and are worth your table salt, you lot volition teach your sons that though they may have leisure, it is not to be spent in idleness; for wisely used leisure merely ways that those who possess it, existence free from the necessity of working for their livelihood, are all the more bound to carry on some kind of non-remunerative work in scientific discipline, in letters, in fine art, in exploration, in historical research—work of the type we nearly need in this country, the successful carrying out of which reflects most honor upon the nation. We do non admire the man of timid peace. We adore the man who embodies victorious endeavour; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is difficult to fail, but information technology is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get zip save by attempt. Liberty from endeavour in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the by. A homo can be freed from the necessity of work only by the fact that he or his fathers before him have worked to proficient purpose. If the freedom thus purchased is used aright, and the human nonetheless does bodily work, though of a unlike kind, whether as a writer or a full general, whether in the field of politics or in the field of exploration and adventure, he shows he deserves his good fortune. But if he treats this menstruum of freedom from the need of actual labor every bit a period, not of training, only of mere enjoyment, fifty-fifty though perhaps not of cruel enjoyment, he shows that he is only a cumberer of the world's surface, and he surely unfits himself to hold his ain with his fellows if the demand to exercise so should again arise.