"[[Seneca]] was exiled. [[Epictetus]] too. The twentieth-century [[German-American]] political philosopher [[Hannah Arendt]] was arrested by the Gestapo, spent eight days in prison, then seven years in exile. [[Galileo]] spent the remainder of his life under house arrest after daring to assert that the Earth revolves around the Sun and for refusing to retract this claim, even though no one would have blamed him if he had. "[[Eleanor Roosevelt]] was sent away by her parents as a young girl and then lived for decades in her husband’s shadow. [[Herman Melville]] was savaged by reviewers. [[Steve Jobs]] was fired from [[Apple]]. [[Charles Darwin]] spent twenty-three years in purgatory before he could publish his thoughts about evolution." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[truth-to-power]], [[failure]], [[courage]], [[character]], [[personal-values]] **Source** -- [[202409180128 - B - Courage is Calling]]