“it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence—these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“By means of music the very passions enjoy themselves.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“There you have the effect of segregation. Man is born for life in society; separate him, isolate him, and his ideas will go to pieces, his character will go sour, a hundred ridiculous affections will spring up in his heart, extravagant notions...”

― Denis Diderot, The Nun

“Bows and arrows were sufficient for centuries to stain the earth with blood. Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race—unhappily.”

― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“She would not say of any one in the world now that they were this or were that.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“But this priviledge, is allayed by another; and that is, by the priviledge of Absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man onely.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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