"Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us."
~J.G. Ballard
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"The person who lives in the ethical sphere lives intentionally, intensively. Such a person possesses character and conviction, and is thus willing to sacrifice himself for something greater than oneself."
~Søren Kierkegaard
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"No finer, greater gift in the world than that… when man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one."
~Homer
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“For traditional societies, all the important acts of life were revealed ab origine by gods or heroes. Men only repeat the exemplary and paradigmatic gestures ad infinitum.”
~Mircea Eliade
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"Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge."
~Dante Alighieri
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“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia."
~Kurt Vonnegut
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