60. In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind.
The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.
Book: Meditations
Subtitle: The classic from Marcus Aurelius.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Chapter: Book Eight
Chapter Subtitle: This reflection also tends to the removal of the desire of empty fame, that it is no longer in your power to have lived the whole of your life, or at least your life from your youth upwards, like a philosopher; but both to many others and to yourself it is plain that you art far from philosophy.
Location: Chapter 8, Section 60
Content:
60. In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind.
The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.