“Centuries ago Calvinist faith turned the cathedral into a hangar, its only function being to keep the prayers of the faithful safe from rain and snow.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Women, in whom life lingers and dwells more immediately, more fruitfully, and more confidently, must surely have become riper and more human in their depths than light, easygoing man, who is not pulled down beneath the surface of life by the...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“There is no study better fitted than that of geology to impress upon men of general culture that conviction of the unbroken sequence of the order of natural phenomena, throughout the duration of the universe, which is the great, and perhaps the...”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar

“At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

“the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“If people only realized what a war goes on in a child’s mind and heart in a situation of this kind, I think they would try to explain more than they do, but nobody told me anything.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“I wanted all thingsTo seem to make some sense,So we all could be happy, yes,Instead of tense.And I made up liesSo that they all fit nice,And I made this sad worldA par-a-dise.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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