"I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it."
Gustave Flaubert
#Ivory tower
#alone
#isolation
#misanthropy
"Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
Douglas Adams
#Atheism
#skeptic
#beauty
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
Albert Einstein
#War
#Einstein
"We all have our limits. And we set them further out than we have any right."
Lews Therin Telamon, The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan.
#limits
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Dune, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.
#fear
#dune
#death
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